Join Dr. Justin Strickland, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for his talk, “Behavioral Economics for Translational Substance Use Research”. 

Behavioral economics is an interdisciplinary field that uses psychological, economic, and neuroscience principles to inform behavioral health and decision-making science. Behavioral economic approaches posit that reinforcers are integrated over a temporal window that determines the relative value of drugs and prosocial alternatives such that brief, immediate, intense, and reliable reinforcers (e.g., substance use) are overvalued compared to alternatives lower in their intensity, variable in their outcome, and delayed in their value accumulation (e.g., employment). This talk will describe data from diverse drug classes in preclinical, human laboratory, and clinical settings to discuss applications for behavioral and medication development research. These data demonstrate improved translational potential achieved through behavioral economic approaches. A public health view of behavioral economics will be explained and how such methods have rendered novel insights to guide policy development and thus garnered widespread attention outside of academia. 

Lunch and parking will be provided. Please see the receptionist upon arrival and she will provide you with a parking permit to place on your dashboard. 

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