Hillary Samples is a health services researcher and assistant professor at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and the Rutgers School of Public Health. Her research broadly aims to improve understanding of behavioral health care patterns, the relationship to patient and population outcomes, and the influence of social and structural factors on the prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use problems, particularly opioid- and suicide-related outcomes. With an emphasis on improving equity in health care access and quality, her work focuses on disparities populations such as those with low income, disabilities, and minoritized race and ethnicity. She earned her master’s degree in population mental health and her PhD in health services and policy research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in substance use epidemiology at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.