Pia M. Mauro, PhD (she/her/hers)
Biography
Pia M. Mauro, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. She is also a core faculty member of the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science (PETS) with the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH).
Dr. Mauro is a Principal Investigator of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) R01 project examining relationships between community-level exposure to the criminal legal system and substance use treatment-related outcomes. She contributes her expertise as a co-investigator in various NIDA R01 projects and has completed a 5-year NIDA K01 Career Development Award focusing on cannabis laws and substance use disorder treatment. Dr. Mauro’s work, which focuses on substance use epidemiology and treatment, is primarily funded through the National Institutes of Health.
Her findings have been disseminated to key policy audiences, including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Public Health Consequences of Changes in the Cannabis Policy Landscape. Dr. Mauro also serves as Associate Editor of Drug and Alcohol Dependence and has published over 80 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, such as JAMA Network Open and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Her work has been cited in numerous policy documents and reports and has been disseminated in popular media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, U.S. News & World Report, and Forbes.
Prior to joining Rutgers, Dr. Mauro was an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Substance Use Epidemiology Unit at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her substance epidemiology training was supported by NIDA, including a post-doctoral research fellowship at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology, and a doctoral degree from the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Research Interests
Dr. Mauro’s research examines individual and structural drivers of substance use and mental health treatment need, availability, use, and outcomes over the life course through a health equity lens. Her work at the intersection of behavioral health epidemiology, health services, and health policy leverages large administrative data sources and applies rigorous epidemiologic methods.