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Jennifer De La Rosa

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine - (Research Scholar Track) | Assistant Research Professor, Pharmacology

Family and Community Medicine

About

<p>strong>Jennifer Schultz De La Rosa, PhD<strong> is a data scientist specializing in health services quality and utilization, workforce development, stigma, and health equity in the interrelated areas of chronic pain, substance use, and mental health. Dr. De La Rosa is the Director of Strategy at the University of Arizona Health Sciences’ Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction and Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine-Tucson. Dr. De La Rosa is serving a 3-year term on the Advocacy Committee of the United States Association for the Study of Pain and was selected to its 2024-2025 LeadershiAcademy as well. Her team’s most recent publication “The Unmet Mental Health Needs of U.S. Adults with Chronic Pain” was awarded Editor’s Choice by em>PAIN< the journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain. Dr. De La Rosa is principal investigator of PeerWORKS, a HRSA-funded program to train, certify, and place opioid-impacted individuals in community provider roles-providing behavioral health peer support to people with similar lived experiences. Dr. De La Rosa also directs evaluation of AzCANN, an Arizona Department of Health Services contracted program providing evidence-based education and training to health professionals concerning the adult use of cannabis.

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    • Social Networks

    • Health of Indigenous Populations

    • Health Disparities in Society

    • Sociology of Terrorism

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