Jordan Jurinsky
Research/Areas of Interest
Recovery; addiction and substance use; adolescent and emerging adult development; community-engaged research; recovery high schools; differences in recovery outcomes; social and ecological 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
Dr. Jordan Jurinsky is an addiction recovery scientist and Assistant Professor of Applied Developmental Science in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. His community-engaged, mixed-methods research advances the measurement and conceptualization of adolescent recovery from substance use disorders, with particular emphasis on social contexts, family processes, and recovery-supportive systems. Grounded in socioecological and recovery capital frameworks, his work examines how recovery unfolds and for whom it progresses, with a focus on differences in recovery outcomes across youth, families, and communities.
Dr. Jurinsky is the Director and Co-founder of the Systematic Evaluation of Adolescent Recovery Services (SEARS), a nationwide academic–community partnership developed in collaboration with Recovery High Schools and the Association of Recovery Schools. To date, SEARS includes data from more than 1,300 students across over 25 recovery high schools nationwide, supporting the development of developmentally appropriate measurement tools and data systems to understand recovery trajectories, well-being, and school functioning in recovery-supportive educational settings.
Across his research program, Dr. Jurinsky partners with communities to address gaps in recovery knowledge and build scalable, school- and family-centered approaches that strengthen recovery-supportive routines, communication, and identity development. His work is further informed by lived experience of addiction and recovery, reinforcing a strengths-based, ethically grounded, and developmentally attuned approach to youth engagement and translational addiction science.
Dr. Jurinsky is the Director and Co-founder of the Systematic Evaluation of Adolescent Recovery Services (SEARS), a nationwide academic–community partnership developed in collaboration with Recovery High Schools and the Association of Recovery Schools. To date, SEARS includes data from more than 1,300 students across over 25 recovery high schools nationwide, supporting the development of developmentally appropriate measurement tools and data systems to understand recovery trajectories, well-being, and school functioning in recovery-supportive educational settings.
Across his research program, Dr. Jurinsky partners with communities to address gaps in recovery knowledge and build scalable, school- and family-centered approaches that strengthen recovery-supportive routines, communication, and identity development. His work is further informed by lived experience of addiction and recovery, reinforcing a strengths-based, ethically grounded, and developmentally attuned approach to youth engagement and translational addiction science.