Matthew Eisenberg
Johns Hopkins University, MD·Public Health & Epidemiology
Substance use disorder, drug overdose and housing insecurity have all reached crisis levels in the United States. In 2019, more than 8 million people met criteria for substance use disorder (SUD), and nearly 37 million households spent more than 30% of their income on housing.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
substance use disorder
drug overdose
opioid crisis
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2027
What they work on
- Estimate how eviction moratoriums, emergency rental assistance and right to counsel for tenants affected rates of substance use treatment, using a 50-state difference-in-differences analysis of IQVIA, HCUP and TEDS treatment data.
- Test whether these three housing policies changed rates of fatal and non-fatal drug overdose across all 50 states, drawing on CDC fatal overdose data and administrative health records.
- Explore how housing policies shaped treatment and overdose risk through in-depth interviews with people who recently used drugs, providers and policy officials in urban and rural counties.
More about the research
Little research has looked at how these problems connect, beyond programs for people who already lack housing. It is still unclear whether policies that help people keep their homes also help them get addiction treatment and avoid overdose.
Why it matters
Eviction moratoriums, emergency rental assistance and right-to-counsel laws reached millions of households facing housing insecurity. Learning whether these policies increased addiction treatment or reduced overdose could help lawmakers and public health officials design and carry out housing policies that also protect people with substance use disorder and lower overdose deaths.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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Yale University, CT·Public Health & Epidemiology
Explore qualitatively how non-congregate housing policies may affect mental illness among people experiencing homelessness, including a landscape analysis of how shelter and healthcare providers partner on housing needs.
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Determine whether state-level expansions of health insurance eligibility are associated with changes in children's insurance enrollment and preventive care, using repeated National Survey of Children's Health data.
Sabrina Boyce
University of California-Berkeley, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Estimate the causal effect of state anti-SGM and SGM-affirming laws adopted from 2021 to 2025 on sexual and intimate partner violence among SGM youth, using difference-in-differences analysis of Youth Risk Behavior Survey data.
The school
Johns Hopkins University: 100 labs on PI Pages, $4.1B a year on research, 622 research doctorates a year.
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