About
Amanda N. Stover is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences in the College of Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences at Clemson University. She received her MPH at the University of Cincinnati and her PhD from the College of Pharmacy at West Virginia University. Her research focuses on the connection between mental and behavioral health. The primary goal of her research is to assess the relationship between self-harm, suicide, and opioid use disorder to provide more effective evidence-based treatment and prevention strategies. Recently, she helped develop training materials for an American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP) project to train pharmacy staff on how to identify and refer individuals with suicidal behavior to crisis resources. Additionally, she has experience working on several projects evaluating harm reduction strategies for overdose prevention among individuals with substance use disorders. Her goals are to evaluate how mental and behavioral health can be integrated to more holistically treat substance use disorders and decrease risk of self-harm for individuals in rural communities.
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How their research is transforming health care
Dr. Stover’s work focuses on the interaction of mental and behavioral health and how these two fields impact health outcomes. Most of her work focuses on suicide and overdose prevention; however, more broadly she is interested in how we establish prevention and treatment programs that address the environmental, mental health, and behavioral components of substance use to more holistically treat addiction and improve health outcomes.
Health research keywords
Faculty Scholar, Rural health, mental health, behavioral health, dual diagnosis treatment, mixed methods, clinical effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability, clinical trials, opioid use disorder, substance use/abuse
