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Marina Epstein

Professional interests

  • Adult social development for cigarette use
  • Parenting interventions for children of marijuana users
  • Youth Substance Use and At-risk Factors
  • Marijuana policy legislation
  • Risk and protective factors for opioid uptake and transition to misuse
  • Suicide prevention research
  • Sexual Minority Disparities in Substance Use and Depression
  • Mechanisms Linking Social and Built Environments to Health
  • Gene-environment interaction in addiction
  • Intergenerational investigation parental marijuana use
  • Longitudinal effects of parental psychiatric diagnosis on risk of youth substance use

Marina Epstein

Research Scientist/ Engineer | Lecturer

SDRG

PhD, Education and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

In addition to a PhD in  Education and Psychology, Dr. Epstein holds an MA in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Published research