Jordan Jurinsky
Research/Areas of Interest
recovery; addiction; substance use; adolescence and emerging adults; community engaged research; recovery high schools; health equity; social contexts
Education
- PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States, 2024
- MEd, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States, 2019
- BA, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, United States, 2016
Biography
I conduct interdisciplinary research on addiction recovery that investigates the social contexts of young people and addresses questions of health equity for young people, families, and communities. In my primary line of research, I investigate addiction recovery among youth with a special emphasis on the mechanisms of how addiction recovery unfolds and for whom recovery progresses.
Throughout my research program, I have aimed to elucidate disparities in recovery outcomes and partner with communities to address gaps in recovery knowledge using equity orientations. To support these goals, I have become adept at building collaborative partnerships and employing creative methods to rigorously capture diverse perspectives. For example, I lead an academic partnership with the Association of Recovery Schools in the development of a universal data collection tool and system for examining recovering student outcomes. To date, 739 students across 24 schools have participated in this project. I have also worked with the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, a collaboration between Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University Medical Center focused on health disparities. We conducted a community-based project that developed and validated a scale to measure trust in biomedical research among minoritized racial and ethnic groups (JAMA Open, 2022). I also first-authored an investigation of race-gender variation in the relationship between arrest history and alcohol use, finding that the relationship varies across race-gender status, age, and the specific measure of alcohol use (Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2024).
In sum, I am dedicated to cultivating a critical, community-engaged, and strengths-based approach to understanding addiction recovery among young people, families, and communities. I have set a foundation from which to pursue questions concerning how (i.e., mechanisms) and for whom (i.e., moderators) addiction recovery unfolds.
Throughout my research program, I have aimed to elucidate disparities in recovery outcomes and partner with communities to address gaps in recovery knowledge using equity orientations. To support these goals, I have become adept at building collaborative partnerships and employing creative methods to rigorously capture diverse perspectives. For example, I lead an academic partnership with the Association of Recovery Schools in the development of a universal data collection tool and system for examining recovering student outcomes. To date, 739 students across 24 schools have participated in this project. I have also worked with the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, a collaboration between Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University Medical Center focused on health disparities. We conducted a community-based project that developed and validated a scale to measure trust in biomedical research among minoritized racial and ethnic groups (JAMA Open, 2022). I also first-authored an investigation of race-gender variation in the relationship between arrest history and alcohol use, finding that the relationship varies across race-gender status, age, and the specific measure of alcohol use (Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2024).
In sum, I am dedicated to cultivating a critical, community-engaged, and strengths-based approach to understanding addiction recovery among young people, families, and communities. I have set a foundation from which to pursue questions concerning how (i.e., mechanisms) and for whom (i.e., moderators) addiction recovery unfolds.