Dr. Qiana L. Brown is an epidemiologist, translational scientist, social worker and assistant professor at the Rutgers University School of Social Work. From a health equity lens, her research focuses on system-level change to improve maternal and child health, centering on preventing prenatal substance use and examining the role of the built and social environments and health and social policy in shaping substance use and other health outcomes among women, youth and families.

In 2019, Dr. Brown was named one of the Society for the Study of Addiction’s “Women of Future Influence in Addiction Science.” Additionally, she is a member of the Board of Directors for the College on Problems of Drug Dependence.

Dr. Brown earned her PhD in mental health and drug dependence epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in substance abuse epidemiology at Columbia University. She also founded and directed a non-profit, community-based substance use disorder treatment center, Jane's House of Inspiration, named in honor of her late mother.

Research conducted by the Center on Parenting and Opioids is supported by the National Institute On Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P50DA048756. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.