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Christine E. Grella, PhD

Sr. Research Scientist
Chestnut Health Systems
Venice, California

Christine E. Grella, Ph.D., is Senior Scientist at Chestnut Health Systems' Lighthouse Institute (2017-present). She held a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1992-2018 (currently Professor Emeritus), and was Director of the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (2012-2017). She received her doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1985. Dr. Grella conducts research on substance use and treatment outcomes among youth and adults, with a focus on gender differences and health disparities in access to and outcomes of treatment. Her research has examined service access, utilization, and outcomes of participation in multiple service delivery systems, including substance use disorder treatment, mental health, child welfare, health services, HIV services, and criminal-legal systems. She has led several longitudinal cohort studies, over a dozen evaluation studies of SAMHSA-funded treatment interventions for individuals with substance use and/or mental health disorders, and epidemiological studies using national survey data on treatment need and utilization. She is currently MPI on the Chestnut Health System Hub in the NIH-HEAL Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN) 2.0, Recovery Management Checkup Scalability and Sustainability (RMC-SS) Hybrid Experiment: Evaluating Comparability of Client and Implementation Outcomes in Community Organizations Post-Arrest (1UM1DA064526) and was PI on the recently completed Recovery Initiation and Management after Overdose (RIMO) Experiment (R21/R33 DA045774). She previously led the NIDA T32 Training Program on Addiction Health Services Research at UCLA and currently serves on numerous scientific and community advisory boards related to behavioral health services.

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