Dr. Timothy Hunt, PhD, MSW, Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University School of Social Work, is Associate Director with the Social Intervention Group, the Global Health Research Center of Central Asia, and Columbia’s Center for Healing of Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders-Enhancing Intervention, Development and Implementation. Dr. Hunt has provided trauma-informed family therapy, substance abuse treatment, and chronic disease prevention and care for over 35 years. His global and domestic research includes designing, testing, and disseminating prevention and health promoting interventions aimed at wellness and reducing harms from addictions, intimate partner violence, and HIV, and utilization of capacity building models in 14 countries. He was a co-investigator on the original WINGS study and subsequent adaptations as well as, Site PI for Women on the Road to Health Transitions for women leaving incarceration. He is co-investigator and NY site intervention lead for the HEALing Communities Study; PI for HRSA-funded Western NY Communities That HEAL study in six NYS counties; and MPI for NIDA-funded TechMPower addressing HIV and SUD for people leaving incarceration in six NY and NJ county jails.
