Joshua Eyer PhD

Joshua C. Eyer is a health psychologist with over 10 years of experience on federally funded clinical, community, and training projects. He serves as the Director of the Southern Regional Drug Data Research Center based at the University of Alabama, a new multistate project funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (DOJ) and housed in the Institute of Data & Analytics at the Culverhouse College of Business. Currently, He is the co-PI of a three-year HRSA grant, leading a community-engaged project to implement interventions to address the opioid crisis in a hard-hit region of Alabama, and an investigator on other federally funded program grants and research projects. He also owns Eyer Research, a provider of consultation and academic research services.

He obtained a PhD in Clinical Health Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and completed a yearlong clinical internship with the Department of Psychiatric Medicine in the Brody School of Medicine, including hospital placements in a Level-1 trauma center, followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in chronic pain in the Department of Psychology at The University of Alabama.