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.