Overview
Dr. Pia M. Mauro is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her NIH-funded work examines multi-level drivers of substance use and mental health treatment need and access across the life course through a health equity lens. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) R01 project testing how community-level exposure to the criminal legal system can contribute to inequities in community substance use treatment need, availability, use, and outcomes (R01DA055606). Through a NIDA K01 Career Development Award, she examined unintended and spillover effects of changing cannabis laws on substance use disorder treatment and related outcomes (K01DA045224, PI: Mauro). She presented her work to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Public Health Consequences of Changes in the Cannabis Policy Landscape. Dr. Mauro has published over 75 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA Network Open, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Medical Care, Lancet Public Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and International Journal of Drug Policy. Notable research findings include low uptake of medication for opioid use disorder in a nationally representative, spillover effects of cannabis laws on cannabis use and treatment, increasing substance use in middle-aged and older adults, disproportionate substance-related burden in sexually minoritized groups, and inequities in screening and brief intervention in general health care settings. She received the Calderone Award for Junior Faculty Development from Columbia University. Her work has been cited in numerous policy documents and reports and has been disseminated in popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, US News, and Forbes.
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- BA, 2008 University of Notre Dame
- PhD, 2015 Johns Hopkins University
Committees, Societies, Councils
Chair, Code of Conduct Committee, College on Problems of Drug Dependence
Member, American Psychopathological Association
Member, American Public Health Association
Member, National Hispanic Science Network
Member, Society for Epidemiologic Research
Member, World Psychiatric Association Epidemiology and Public Health Section
Research
Research Interests
- Addiction Treatment
- Aging
- Criminal Justice Populations
- Health Equity and Disparities
- MAT Opioid Use Disorder
- Mental Health
- Public Health Policy
- Social determinants of health
- Structural Racism
- Substance Use
Selected Publications
Mauro, P.M., Gutkind, S., Askari, M.S., Hasin, D.S., Samples, H., Mauro, C.M., Annunziato, E.M., Boustead, A.E., Martins, S.S. (2024). Associations between cannabis policies and state-level specialty cannabis use disorder treatment in the United States, 2004-2019. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 257, 111113. PMID: 38382162.
Mauro, P.M., Gutkind, S., Annunziato, E.A., Samples, H. (2022). Use of medication for opioid use disorder among U.S. adolescents and adults with need for opioid treatment, 2019. JAMA Network Open, 5(3), e223821. PMID: 35319762.
Prins, S.J., Shefner, R., Kajeepeta, S., Levy, N., Esie, P., Mauro, P.M. (2023). Longitudinal relationship among exclusionary school discipline, adolescent substance use, and adult arrest: Public health implications of the school-to-prison pipeline. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 251, 110949. PMID: 37699288
Mauro, P.M., Kane, J.C., Askari, M.S., Iwamoto, D., Martins, S.S. (2023). Mind the gap: Differences in alcohol use screening and discussions among adults comparing Asian American and other racial and ethnic subgroups in the United States, 2015-2019. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 58(1), 31-39. PMID: 36309849.
West, B.S., Krasnova, A., Philbin, M.M., Diaz, J.E., Kane, J.C., Mauro, P.M. (2024). HIV status and substance use disorder treatment need and utilization among adults in the United States, 2015-2019: Implications for healthcare service provision and integration. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment (JSAT), 164, 209440. PMID: 38880303.
Mauro, P.M., Kaur, N., Askari, M.S., Keyes, K.M. (2023). Alcohol or drug self-help use among adults in the United States: Age, period, and cohort effects between 2002-2018. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-15. PMID: 36785551.
Philbin, M.M., Greene, E.R., LaBossier, N.J., Martins, S.S., McCrimmon, T., Mauro, P.M. (2023) Age-related patterns of cocaine and methamphetamine use across the life course in the United States: disparities by gender and sexual identity among adults. Addictive Behaviors, 137, 107539. PMID: 36343473.
Keyes, K.M., Joseph, V., Kaur, N., Kreski, N.T., Chen, Q. Martins, S.S., Hasin, D.S., Olfson, M., Mauro, P.M. (2023). Adolescent simultaneous use of alcohol and marijuana by trends in cigarette and nicotine vaping from 2000 to 2020. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 249, 109948. PMID: 37270934.
Mauro, P.M., Gutkind, S., Rivera-Aguirre, A., Gary, D., Cerda, M., Chavez Santos, E., Castillo-Carniglia, A., Martins, S.S. (2022). Trends in cannabis or cocaine-related dependence and alcohol/drug treatment in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. International Journal of Drug Policy, 108, 103810. PMID: 35939947.
Keyes, K.M., Kauri, N., Kreski, N.T., Chen, Q., Martins, S.S., Hasin, D., Olfson, M., Mauro, P.M. (2022). Temporal trends in alcohol, cannabis, and simultaneous use among 12th grade US adolescents from 2000 to 2020: Differences by sex, parental education, and race and ethnicity. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 46(9), 1677-1686. PMID: 36125706.
Mauro, P.M., Philbin, M.M., Greene, E.R., Diaz, J.E., Askari, M.S., Martins, S.S. (2022). Daily cannabis use, cannabis use disorder, and any medical cannabis use among US adults: Associations within racial, ethnic, and sexual minoritized identities in a changing policy context. Preventive Medicine Reports, 28, 101822. PMID: 35620050.
Gonçalves, P.D., Gutkind, S., Segura, L., Castaldelli-Maia, J.M., Martins, S.S., Mauro, P.M. (2022). Simultaneous alcohol/cannabis use and driving under the influence in the US. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 62(5), 661-669. PMID: 35459450.
