Assistant Professor
Boston University
Noel Vest, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research interests include mental health, substance use disorders, and addiction recovery. As a formerly incarcerated scholar and a person in long-term recovery, Dr. Vest is an advocate for social justice issues and public policy concerning substance use disorder recovery and prison reentry. He is currently funded by two NIH grants to study collegiate recovery programs and secondary analysis of NIDA Clinical Trials Network data. He received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Washington State University. He completed a NIDA T32 postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pain Medicine at Stanford University.
