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Laura Harrison, MPH

Senior Research Scientist
Northwell Health
New Hyde Park, New York

Laura Harrison, MPH, is a Senior Research Scientist for Northwell Health’s Emergency Medicine Service line. As part of the Addiction Services Team, Laura works on system-level strategies to address substance use as part of usual care. This layered approach is based on a foundation of universal screening - Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) - and a framework of education, to identify and build on opportunities to provide services to address substance use with patients. Laura’s role includes data, evaluation, and research for each program offered. She has helped build a foundation for vast data collection and validation. In effort to create efficient data management, she has designed workflows, educational materials, data tracking systems (databases/spreadsheets) and automated reporting procedures to minimize burden on frontline staff and optimize usability for grant reporting and research purposes.

Currently, Laura is part of the study team working to apply the SBIRT framework for substance use to Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention, as part of a grant from the NIH National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. The goals of this grant are to devise strategies for implementation of universal screening for firearm injury risk in emergency departments, provide firearm safety information, gun locks, and other resources/referrals to those at risk, and evaluate the efficacy of services offered.

Laura’s educational background includes a Master’s in Public Health in Epidemiology/Biostatistics from the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Public Health & Public Health Policy.

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