Erika Crable, Ph.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego with faculty appointments in the School of Medicine and in the H.W. School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. Her research program investigates how research evidence is used in public policymaking processes, and how policy, politics, and public trust in science influence health equity outcomes for people who are living with substance use disorders. She conducts NIH/NIDA funded research projects that test the utility of multi-level dissemination and implementation strategies to improve how research evidence is communicated to and used by federal, state, and county-level policy actors. Her research program is focused on policies that impact service access and quality for safety-net (i.e., Medicaid insured, uninsured, underinsured populations) and criminal/legal-involved populations. She completed NIDA-funded fellowships at the Implementation Research Institute and Miriam Lifespan/Brown University Criminal Justice Research Training Program.