Amy M. Cohn, PhD

Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Director of Training
Health Promotion Research Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Dr. Amy Cohn is an Associate Professor in the TSET Health Promotion Research Center (OTRC) and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) and member of the Stephenson Cancer Center. She is also the Director of Training at the TSET Health Promotion Research Center. Her program of research focuses on substance use and mental health comorbidities among vulnerable populations,, including youth and young adults, and has been continuously funded by NIH since 2013. A considerable portfolio of her published work has focused on the co-occurrence of alcohol and tobacco with cannabis use. She recently completed an NIH R21 that examined and characterized the daily cannabis and tobacco use and co-use patterns of young adults using thrice daily ecological momentary assessment over 28 days. When she was employed as a Research Investigator at the Truth Initiative Foundation, Dr. Cohn was a member of the Truth Initiative team that helped sponsor the development of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report on the health effects of cannabis; the most authoritative report, to date, on cannabis’s association with, or influence on, a variety of health risk behaviors. Dr. Cohn has published and collaborated on numerous studies examining correlates and consequences of cannabis use and its co-use with tobacco using data from national and population-based studies including the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study and the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).