Center for Digital Health

Dr. Kristina Jackson is a Professor (Research) at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. Her research largely centers on the developmental course of substance use among adolescents and young adults. She has received funding from NIAAA and NIDA to examine individual- and contextual-level risk factors for substance use initiation and progression to increasingly severe use. 

She is currently funded to understand in-vivo exposure to alcohol content in social media and entertainment media and to determine the social and cognitive mechanisms underlying associations with youth drinking. She is also interested in the co-use of multiple substances including simultaneous use of alcohol with cannabis and with tobacco. Her work frequently uses Smartphone-based apps to study substance use-related behaviors in an ecological context and at fine-grained level. She is an expert in the application of quantitative methods to the study of substance use and has been funded by a mid-career award to apply developmental methods to research in underage substance use.