Trust in Health and Cannabis (THC) Information: Using Digital Tools to Understand Contexts of Emerging Cannabis Product Usr

Meredith Meacham, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

This month, Dr. Meredith Meacham will share preliminary findings from her K01 mixed-methods study of trust in online, dispensary, and medical sources of information about cannabis.  Please join us to learn about her research, which includes: (1) a national online survey with over 1,000 people who use cannabis to assess patterns of use, adverse effects, trusted information sources, and protective behavioral strategies, and (2) qualitative interviews with San Francisco Bay Area “budtenders.”

Meredith Meacham, PhD, MPH (she/her) is an assistant professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  As an epidemiologist and social scientist, she studies substance use and digital technologies (e.g., social media, chatbots, EHR data) as tools for monitoring trends and delivering interventions.

The UCSF Drug Use Research Group (DURG) is a city-wide seminar attended by faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and other Bay Area investigators centering on persons who use drugs.  Started in 2005 after a friendly debate between an epidemiologist and anthropologist on the merits of quantitative versus qualitative research methods, the DURG monthly seminars provide a community platform for new and established investigators to present their work, explore research questions and methods, and to prepare for grant applications and the dissemination of findings in a supportive environment.  The seminar has been successful in cultivating new collaborations and mentorship and in sustaining an interdisciplinary and interprofessional dialogue between those engaged in basic sciences, epidemiology, clinical, and public health research.  

We have returned to in-person meetings.  Our meetings are not recorded.  Please contact us if you’d like to present your work or research ideas for friendly consultation and peer review.