Tessa Frohe, PhD
I am a trained Behavioral Psychologist with a PhD in Health & Human Performance. The main goal of my work is to reduce substance-related harms and improve quality of life for people experiencing problems related to their substance use. I work closely with community members and people who use drugs to inform my line of research and address key needs identified. Most of my research is conducted at the Harm Reduction Research and Treatment (HaRRT) Center within the UW School of Medicine. My aim is to adapt, refine, and disseminate harm reduction programs through digital health interventions to empower individuals and ameliorate substance-related harms.
Education
PhD, Health Behavior Psychology, University of Florida, 2015-2020
BA, Psychology major & Honors and Music minor, University of New Mexico, 2010-2014
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Other Affiliations
Research with Expert Advisors on Drug Use (READU) Evaluation Team
Scholarly Expertise
- Addiction
- Addiction psychiatry/psychology
- Adult Psychiatry/Psychology
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
- Community mental health
- Community-based partnered research
- Depression
- Evidence-based practice
- Harm reduction
- Health behaviors
- Health disparities
- Health disparities
- Health risk behavior(s)
- Health services and health policy
- Human-centered design
- Implementation science
- Low resource settings
- Mobile mental health
- Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
- Pain, including chronic pain
- Patient-centered outcomes
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Prevention
- Psychiatric problems
- Qualitative research
- Randomized controlled trial
- Research methods
- Special populations
- Telemedicine
- Telepsychiatry/psychology
- Training
