Janna Ataiants, DrPH, MPA
Dr. Janna Ataiants is an Assistant Research Professor at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Her research examines how gender, social contexts, and marginalization shape drug use experiences.
Her recent projects focused on opioid overdose in Philadelphia, including the investigation of personal and witnessed overdose among vulnerable women, as well as the effects of a pilot app-based overdose prevention intervention - a project supported by the National Institute for Drug Abuse (PI: Prof. S.E. Lankenau).
For the past decade, she has been a research analyst for a NIDA-funded cohort study of young adult cannabis users in Los Angeles (PI: Prof. S. E. Lankenau) where she was involved in data analysis and manuscript development.
Dr. Ataiants is the Co-Investigator on the PA medical cannabis patient registry study funded by Agronomed (PI: Prof. S.E. Lankenau).