Associate Professor
University of Central Florida
Barbara "Basia" Andraka-Christou, JD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics, with a Joint Secondary Appointment in the Department of Internal Medicine, at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is also a licensed attorney in Florida. She leads the UCF Substance Use Policy & Evaluation Research Team.
Her research explores substance use disorder treatment from health services and health policy perspectives. Much of her work focuses on problem-solving courts.
Dr. Andraka-Christou has authored more than 60 peer reviewed articles. She is the author of the book The Opioid Fix: America’s Addiction Crisis and the Solution They Don’t Want You to Have (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Dr. Andraka-Christou received her J.D. and Ph.D. from Indiana University and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship there.
