2026 Annual Conference

Traci C. Green, PhD, MSc

Professor and Director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University

Co-Director of the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence on Opioids and Overdoses (COBRE) at Brown University's Rhode Island Hospital

Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and the Brown School of Public Health

Dr. Green is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on drug use, opioid use disorder, and drug-related injury. She earned a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University and a PhD in Epidemiology from Yale University.  She helped design the ASI-MV®, a real-time illicit and prescription drug misuse surveillance system developed by Inflexxion, Inc. Prior to joining the Heller School at Brandeis, she served as Deputy Director of the Boston Medical Center Injury Prevention Center, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.  She co-directs the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Opioids and Overdose at Rhode Island Hospital and is an Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and the Brown School of Public Health.  

She helped co-found Prescribe to Prevent for prescribers and pharmacists and its companion site Prevent-Protect for families, patients, and community organizations.  She presently oversees the community drug checking resource Street Check and the Massachusetts Drug Supply Data Stream (MADDS), the first statewide drug checking program. She serves as an advisor to the Rhode Island Governor on addiction and overdose, and consulted for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas on public health and public safety opportunities. She served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and two recent National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committees pertaining to opioid pain management, regulatory strategies to address opioids, and medications for opioid use disorder. Her research is supported by the CDC, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, the Department of Justice, and the RIZE Massachusetts Foundation.

We invite you to present your work on substance use and addiction during our Research Talks and Poster Session for the Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction’s 7th Annual Conference on Monday, May 4th in the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at the Penn State University Park campus.

We strongly encourage researchers, students, clinicians, community members and partner organizations to attend and participate in these sessions. The Poster Session will occur in the afternoon session and will include an award for best student poster. The Research Talks will be given in the afternoon session as well. These talks will be “flash talks” and be targeted to 7 to 10 minutes in length. Lunch will be provided, and the Social Science Research Institute will cover the cost of the poster printing.

Interested applicants for the Poster Session and/or Research Talks must submit a short abstract (approximately 300-350 words) about their poster or research talk presentation. The deadline for participating in the Poster Session and/or Research Talks is Monday, March 30.

Submit a Poster Session and/or Research Talk using the online form.

Please Note: Finalized posters must be submitted by Friday, April 24 to csua@psu.edu to ensure adequate time for printing. Finalized research talks presentations must be submitted to csua@psu.edu by Thursday, April 30 to ensure that the IT team has everyone's presentations.

You can visit our website for additional information about the submission process for the poster session and research talks. Please email Joel Segel, CSUA Director, at jes87@psu.edu with any questions.

Our conference will be held at the the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub, which is located at 123 S. Burrowes Street in State College, PA 16801. View Google Maps directions. Please note that the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub is not on campus but is in Downtown State College across from the University Park campus.

Parking: Public garage and street parking is available in close proximity of the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub. The daily rate is $1 per hour.

• Beaver Garage: Located at 200 W. Beaver Avenue. (About 1 block from the building.)
• Fraser Garage: Located at 135 S. Fraser Street. (Less than 2 blocks from the building.)