Adriana Espinosa, PhD
Adriana Espinosa, PhD
Dr. Adriana Espinosa is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at The City College of New York, CUNY. She earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is the founder and Principal Investigator of the Applied Research in the Health and Adaptation of Minority Populations (ARHAMP) laboratory at The City College of New York. Dr. Espinosa leads an interdisciplinary research program that employs a life course perspective to examine the influence of multi-level sociocultural, environmental, and psychological influences of health risk behaviors (e.g., tobacco, alcohol, and substance use) and chronic mental and physical health conditions (e.g., AUD, SUD, cancer). Dr. Espinosa’s long-term goal is to create a scientific framework that incorporates the complex interaction of salient risk and protective factors, and which informs policy and interventions to reduce health disparities through the prevention and treatment of chronic morbidity. Dr. Espinosa was a Predoctoral Ford Fellow. She is currently PI of a NIH-funded R21 project exploring risk and protective factors for early tobacco use among White and Black adolescents, and co-I of a NIH- funded study examining the effectiveness of psychosocial treatments for cocaine use among Black adults enrolled in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (MPIs: Ruglass & Burlew). Dr. Espinosa is also PI of an institutional grant that examines adherence to practices that prevent infection and transmission of COVID-19 among Hispanic adults, and co-PI of two U54 CCNY- MSKCC partnership funded randomized controlled trials addressing disparities in cancer treatment among Chinese immigrants and Black and Hispanic women with breast cancer.