Teresa Winstead PhD, MA

Teresa Winstead (she/her), PhD, MA is a Senior Research Scientist with ADAI’s Center for Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology and Research (CEDEER) and an Affiliate Associate Professor in Health Systems and Population Health providing qualitative research design, implementation, and analysis expertise to projects focused on supporting health and wellbeing of people who are currently using drugs. Prior to joining ADAI, Teresa was an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Saint Martin’s University, where she was also Chair of the Department of Society and Social Justice. Dr. Winstead is a medical anthropologist and has been working in harm reduction research for over ten years, and she earned a dual doctorate PhD in Cultural Anthropology and Policy Analysis and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Dr. Winstead’s current work includes contributing as an investigator on a study of a post-opioid overdose stabilization center that provides people with an alternative to emergency department admission. She also co-facilitates the Lived Experience Advisory Board that has helped inform the model of care at the stabilization center. And, she is the qualitative methodologist on a mixed methods study about drug use trajectories.