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Dr. Juliette Roddy

Dr. Juliette RoddyJames Wurgler Endowed Chair of Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University

Dr. Juliette Roddy (Economist) serves as The NARBHA Institute James Wurgler, MD endowed Chair in Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ.  She is considered an expert in mixed methods research and has been working in the fields of criminal justice and behavioral health for the past 21 years.  Beginning with her dissertation, Dr. Roddy has applied economic theory to the study of addiction.   Her post-doctoral position within NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Great Lakes Regional Node allowed for an in-depth study of the economic lives of heroin users in the city of Detroit.  She detailed access and consumption of substance use treatment services according to health insurance status for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).  Her funded work with NIDA’s Advancing Novel Science in Women’s Research (ANSWR R21 DA 027145-02) allowed for a unique study of a drug court intervention for women seeking treatment for addiction and alternatives to their profession in sex work.  More recently, she is a co-investigator on two studies testing respondent driven sampling with IV drug users in urban, suburban and rural areas in Michigan (NSF 1461470, NIH RO1AG060936-01). Her work is published in Substance Use and Misuse1, the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors2, the Journal of Drug Issues3, the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse4, and the International Journal of Drug Use Policy5 to name a few.   Dr. Roddy has lead curriculum and pedagogy strategies at the University of Michigan Dearborn (UMD) in the area of substance use studies.  As an assistant professor in the Master of Public Policy, she provided oversight for all thesis that included drug policy.  As the Chair of UMD’s Department of Health and Human Services, she developed the University’s first Addiction Studies Certificate as a joint certificate for both Criminal Justice majors and Public Health majors.  As the Director of Graduate Studies for UMD’s Criminal Justice Department, she advised thesis students who focused on substance use and taught several courses on drug use, criminality, and alternatives to incarceration for drug offenders.  Dr. Roddy served on the Board of Directors of Detroit’s Self Help Addiction Rehabilitation (SHAR) House, was a member of the Drug Surveillance Task Force in Detroit, and worked with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on substance use policy as well as St. Clair County, Macomb County, Oakland County, Wayne County and Detroit’s public health departments on many substance use initiatives.  She reviews for the nation’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association (SAMHSA) several times annually.  She is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.  Her community work includes service as a member of the Executive Board (Treasurer) for the Native Americans for Community Action (NACA) and as board member of the Inter-Tribal Advisory Council, both  in Flagstaff, AZ.

  1. Roddy, J., and Greenwald, M., “An Economic Analysis of Income and Expenditures by Heroin-Using Research Volunteers,” Substance Use and Misuse, vol. 44, no. 11, 2009, pp. 1503-1518.
  2. Roddy, J., Steinmiller, C., and Greenwald, M., “Heroin Purchasing Is Income and Price Sensitive,” Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, vol. 25, no. 2, 2011, pp. 358-364.
  3. Draus, P., Roddy, J., and Greenwald, M., “‘I Always Kept a Job’: Income Generation, Heroin Use and Economic Uncertainty in 21st Century Detroit,” Journal of Drug Issues, vol. 40, no. 3, 2010, pp. 841-870.
  4. Draus, P., Roddy, J., and Greenwald, M., “Heroin Mismatch in the Motor City: Addiction, Segregation and the Geography of Opportunity, “ Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, vol. 11, no. 2, 2012, pp. 149-173.
  5. Draus, P., Roddy, J., and Asabigi, K., “Streets, Strolls and Spots: Sex Work, Drug Use and Social Space in Detroit,” International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 26, no. 5, 2015, pp. 453-460.