Angela Haeny, PhD

Angela Haeny, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Her research primarily focuses on risk and protective factors and treatment implications for those less visible in addiction treatment research with a focus on Black adults. Data are available from past and ongoing projects including: 1) the Self-Change Study, which seeks to understand the process of self-change from substance use disorders among Black adults; 2) the Craving Study, which aims to develop a patient-rated outcome measure of drug and alcohol craving; 3) Sawubona, which involves collecting data on an African-centered virtual healing group to inform how this group might be applied as an adjunctive support for Black adults with substance use disorders; and 4) the Treatment Adaptation Study, which is the most recent study Dr. Haeny is working on that involves adapting SUD treatment modules and evaluating feasibility and acceptability. Dr. Haeny has a career development award focused on adapting alcohol treatment for Black adults to include experiences of racial stress and trauma. In addition, Dr. Haeny has access to data assessing the impact of COVID-19 and racial stress on substance use and other mental health outcomes, the impact of psychedelic use on racial trauma, a harmonized dataset from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN-0125), and addiction-related national epidemiologic datasets (e.g., NESARC, NSDUH) all rich for secondary analyses. T32 fellows in Dr. Haeny's lab would have access to these projects and datasets and would have the opportunity to work collaboratively with a team aiming to achieve racial equity in addiction research.