Jennifer J CarrollJennifer J. Carroll is a medical anthropologist with interdisciplinary training in cultural anthropology, epidemiology, and clinical research. She earned her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and a concurrent MPH in epidemiology at the Univesity of Washington. She also hold an M.A. in sociology from Central European University and a B.A. in anthropology from Reed College.Her research explores lived experiences of substance use and the impacts of drug policy on the health and wellness of people who use drugs. She have written an award winning book exploring the experience of people in Ukraine who seek treatment for opioid use disorder at internationally-funded methadone clinics as well as the impact of those clinics on Ukraine's geopolitical status and the impacts of Russia's ongoing invasion and occupation of Ukrainian regions. Through my ethnographic research in the United States, Carroll was one of the first researchers to systematically document the perspectives of people who use drugs on fentanyl contamination in the U.S. drug supply, providing new evidence that fentanyl is a supply-side (not demand driven) phenomenon. Her current research explores the impact of punitive civil and criminal responses to substance use on overdose risk and community health in the United States.In addition to her independent and community-driven scholarship, Carroll also serve as a subject matter expert and program consultant for the Division of Overdose Prevention, part of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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