Natasha Sokol is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School, and Research Scientist at the Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital. Dr. Sokol earned her doctoral degree in social epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed a NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at the Brown School of Public Health.
Dr. Sokol’s research focuses on modifiable factors contributing to inequities in the consequences associated with substance use across the life course and intergenerationally, as well as on topics related to reproductive justice. She is interested in parental health and concepts of stress, particularly related to the social and societal factors that drive both. Her current research focuses on relationships between discrimination, material deprivation, stress and substance use in early motherhood.
