About me
Emily A. Hennessy is the Associate Director and Director of Biostatistics at the Recovery Research
Institute (RRI), Associate Director of the National Center on Youth Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery,
and Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hennessy was a Fulbright Scholar
to Norway where she completed an M.Phil. in Health Promotion and focused on adolescent well-being.
She completed her Ph.D. in Community Research and Action at Vanderbilt University and her
postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Connecticut in the Systematic Health Action Research
Program Lab. Dr. Hennessy’s research examines factors associated with health behavior change and
building recovery capital, and primarily focuses on adolescent and emerging adult treatment and
recovery. She has received foundation, state, and other funding for research with youth and received the
2022 Researcher of the Year Award from the DB Recovery + McLean Deconstructing Stigma Conference
for her work on Adolescent Recovery Capital. She is the founder and Chair of the Substance Use
Treatment and Recovery Campbell Collaboration Review group. She and Professor David Best have
recently co-edited The Handbook of Recovery Capital.
