Maureen Ann Walton, MPH, PhD

Maureen Walton, MPH, Ph.D., is a community psychologist, professor, and associate chair for research and research faculty development in the Department of Psychiatry. She is also the associate director for child research at the U-M Addiction Center, the senior associate director of the Injury Prevention Center, and the co-director of the research and scholarship core at the Insitute for Firearm Injury Prevention.

Dr. Walton's research seeks to prevent and treat substance use and related concerns, such as interpersonal violence, to enhance well-being. She has expertise in harnessing digital health technologies for intervention delivery aand collaborates with community partners to enhance impact. She actively collaborates with d3C affliated faculty on development and testing of adaptive interventions using innovative experimental designs. The author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, her collaborative projects have been funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.