Richard E. Adams

Richard E. Adams, PhD, is a Research Associate in the Division of Health and Science Policy. His current research endeavors include social and psychiatric epidemiology, quality of life in urban areas, community mental health, and health services for disadvantaged populations.

Dr. Adams has experience in the areas of community disasters, stress and coping, HIV/AIDS, mental health, and community policing. These projects included a series of social epidemiological studies examining the causes and consequences of substance abuse in African American and Puerto Rican adolescents and young adults from an urban neighborhood. He was also involved in a large epidemiological study of people with severe mental illness, recruited during their very first psychiatric hospitalization and followed over four years, and a study of the health and mental health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on children and their mothers in the communities surrounding the power plant. Finally, he helped direct an evaluation study of community policing in five cities across the state of North Carolina.

Over the past several years, he has held research and teaching positions at UCLA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, SUNY Stony Brook, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has published articles in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Community Psychology, Psychological Medicine, and Crime & Delinquency.

Dr. Adams received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1989. Subsequently, he spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow in mental health services research at UCLA.

Contact information: (212) 822-7290; radams@nyam.org

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