Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research), Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Research)

Overview

Dr. Ju Nyeong Park, Ph.D., M.H.S., is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brown University and a Research Scientist at Rhode Island Hospital.  Dr. Park co-directs the research track of the Brown Internal Medicine Residency Program and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health.  She earned her Ph.D. and M.H.S. in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Sydney.

Dr. Park is an expert on fentanyl and overdose detection technologies.  Her team, the Harm Reduction Innovation Lab (HRIL) is based at Rhode Island Hospital.  HRIL's mission is to implement, and evaluate innovative interventions to promote the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs though partnerships with community organizations and government.  Her team includes a project coordinator, research assistants, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and fellows from Brown University, Johnson & Wales University, Simmons University, and Johns Hopkins University. 

Currently, Dr. Park is a Principal Investigator on a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Opioids and Overdose Research Project Leader grant funded by the National Institutes of Heath examining overdose detection technologies (P20GM125507) and a pilot grant funded by the Patterson Trust. She also serves as a Co-Investigator on three NIH-funded studies: (1) the CUTS drug checking cohort study (UG3DA056881), (2) an OUD-Sleep cohort study (R01DA059469), and (3) a PTSD-OUD intervention study (1R61DA061335).

Dr. Park has extensive experience conducting epidemiologic studies, mixed-methods studies, prospective cohort studies and surveillance studies. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications on substance use, HIV and overdose, and her research has been featured in media outlets including the New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera and the Washington Post. She serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Drug Policy.

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