Office Address:
300 West Bank Office Building
Mailing Address:
1300 S 2nd St
Room 300 West Bank Office Building
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Darin Erickson, PhD
Professor, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
Education
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Missouri
MA, Social Psychology, University of Missouri
BS, Psychology, Iowa State University
Summary
I am a social psychologist and a substance use researcher. My work examines the role of the policy environment in substance use behavior and associated outcomes. My research is embedded in a public health framework that links the substance use policy environment with use and associated consequences. My early work was predominantly studying tobacco and alcohol. Most of this work is in collaboration with colleagues in the Alcohol Epidemiology Program.
My substance use work has shifted over the past decade to focus more on evaluating the changing policy and retail landscape around cannabis and hemp. I have examined law enforcement practices in legal cannabis states, whether legalizing cannabis is associated with fatal traffic crashes and alcohol purchasing, the policies and practices of retail cannabis stores, and the likelihood of underage youth being able to purchase cannabis at a retail store. I am currently the Associate Director of Research at the Cannabis Research Center.
I am also a highly sought after methodologist. I have collaborated with both UMN and external investigators. I have been the methodologist on projects involving nutrition and healthy eating, sexual behavior and health, adolescent health, firearm violence, opioid misuse, physical activity and exercise, special needs populations, PTSD, and sleep. My methodological expertise includes study design, mixed model regression, time series, and latent variable modeling.
Expertise
Alcohol, cannabis, policy, enforcement, longitudinal modeling, time series, mixed model regression, latent variable modeling
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