Leadership and Staff

Jennifer P. Read, PhD, is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Director of the UB Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions (CRIA). Dr. Read’s research focuses on causes and consequences of harmful alcohol use, with a particular interest in the intersection of drinking, trauma, and posttraumatic stress.  Dr. Read is the current Editor in Chief of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, and she is the Co-Director of UB’s NIH/NIAAA-funded T32 pre-and post-doctoral Alcohol Research Training Program. Her work has been funded by federal and private agencies. Dr. Read is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and for the Association for the Advancement of Behavior and Cognitive Therapy.

Nancy Nielsen, MD, is senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science. She is a past president of the American Medical Association and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is one of the nation’s leading experts on health care policy and health care reform.

Dr. Herzberg is a Professor of History and the Director of the Drugs, Health, and Society MA program at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His research explores the nature and trajectory of drug commerce, drug use, and drug policy in America, with a primary focus on psychoactive pharmaceuticals. Among other places, you can find my work in American Quarterly, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, the New York Times, and in three books, White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America (University of Chicago press, 2020), Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America (University of California Press, 2023),  and Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (Johns Hopkins, 2009).