Alison M. Haney

PhD

Alison M. Haney, PhD, Assistant Professor.

Alison M. Haney

PhD

Alison M. Haney

PhD

Assistant Professor
Community Health and Health Behavior
School of Public Health and Health Professions

Research Topics

Alcohol and cannabis use and misuse; substance use consequences; affect; sociocultural influences on mental health; ambulatory assessment; quantitative methods in daily life research; mobile health interventions.

Overview

Professional Summary

Alison Haney, PhD, is an assistant professor who specializes in substance use and related consequences. Prior to joining the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior at the University at Buffalo, Haney was a postdoctoral fellow, part of the NIAAA T32 Psychology of Alcohol Use and Addictions Research training program at the University of Missouri. She completed her PhD in clinical psychology at Purdue University. Haney’s research examines how dynamic, health-relevant processes are measured in daily life in order to identify targets for mobile health interventions. She uses quantitative methods and ambulatory technology to increase the precision with which we can measure affect and substance use outside of the laboratory, examine how affective and other consequences of substance use vary within and across contexts and sociocultural groups, and leverage this information to develop scalable, mobile interventions aimed at supporting healthy decision-making around substance use and related behaviors (e.g., alcohol-impaired driving).

Education

  • PhD, clinical psychology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
  • MS, clinical psychology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
  • Graduate Certificate in psychological statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
  • BA, psychology and Spanish, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Mich.

Training

  • Postdoctoral fellowship, T32 The Psychology of Alcohol Use and Addiction Training, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
  • Predoctoral internship in health service psychology, Cincinnati VA Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Professional Affiliations

  • Research Society on Alcohol
  • American Psychological Association
  • Association for Psychological Science