Alison Hamilton Brown, Ph.D., specializes in qualitative research on issues related to substance abuse treatment, the relationship between research and practice, dual diagnosis, and gender and sexuality. Currently she is Principal Investigator on a NIDA-funded K01, "Women, Methamphetamine, and Sex." At HSRC, she serves as the qualitative researcher on the pilot LAMP project, and she has worked with PI Sheryl Kataoka on her pilot study of suicide detection in LAUSD schools. At UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, she has served as an assistant research anthropologist on two studies: 1) NIDA's Gender Differences in a Long-Term Follow-Up of Opiate Users in CA (PI: Christine Grella), and 2) NIDA's Treatment System Impact (PI: Yih-Ing Hser), which looks at the impact of California's Proposition 36 on the substance abuse treatment system. Prior to these studies, Dr. Brown directed a CSAT-funded study of treatment adherence among participants in the CSAT-funded Methamphetamine Treatment Project (MTP), and she served as Principal Investigator for an independent, qualitative study of research/practice dynamics in the MTP. Dr. Brown also served as the ethnographer for the NIDA-funded Substance Abusing Mentally Ill Project. She is an expert in the use of qualitative data analysis (QDA) software.

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