Mieka Smart, DrPH

Mieka Smart, DrPH

Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine

Director, Leadership for the Medically Underserved (LMU) Certificate Program

Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University

E-Mail: smartmie@msu.edu

Mieka Smart, DrPH

Dr. Mieka Smart is an assistant professor in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, with appointments in the Division of Public Health and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She earned a BA in public health and then an MHS and a DrPH in mental health at Johns Hopkins University.

Her research interests include the prevention of mental illness and the use of systematic observations to monitor and evaluate public health policy interventions. She uses spatial and time series data analysis methods to understand the predictors and correlate of drug and alcohol problems.

Research Focus
Alcohol and drug epidemiology, physiological stress response, mental health


About AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program, administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), through which members serve with nonprofit, faith-based, and public agencies for one full year on projects designed to lessen and alleviate poverty.