Jennifer J. Carroll, PhD, MPH, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Miriam Hospital and a Research Associate at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University, where she is part of the Brown University Ukraine Collaboration. She earned her Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology and M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. She also holds an M.A. in Sociology from Central European University and a B.A. in Anthropology from Reed College.

Dr. Carroll’s dissertation, entitled ‘Choosing Methadone: Managing Addiction and the Body Politic in Ukraine’, explores the perspectives of Ukrainians who are receiving opiate substitution therapy to treat opioid dependence disorder. She is writing a book based on this research that explores the impact of drug use and drug users on the current geopolitical conflict in Ukraine.

Her current project investigates the marginalization of drug users from health care services and from regulatory consumer protections, and the amplifying effect this disenfranchisement has on the lethal opiate overdose crisis in New England.

Dr. Carroll is also an avid photographer. Her work has been exhibited at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City and has appeared in numerous publications. A gallery of her photos from the 2014 EuroMaidan Revolution in Ukraine can be viewed here.