Maureen Walton MPH, PhD, is a community psychologist who conducts community engaged research testing early interventions focusing on opioids, alcohol, cannabis, and/or violence among adolescents and young adults. She has expertise in working with partners to harness digital technologies to optimize delivery of adaptive interventions.
Recent lines of collaborative research include a randomized controlled trial testing telehealth and messaging interventions to prevent opioid misuse. She is particularly interested in innovative designs, such as sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs), micro-randomized trials (MRTs), and hybrid experimental designs.