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Amanda Bunting
Amanda M. Bunting, PhD
NYU Langone Health - Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Email: amanda.bunting@nyulangone.org
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Kentucky
MA, Applied Sociology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Research Interests
Polysubstance use, Opioid use, Justice-involved, Criminal justice, Reentry, Health service utilization, Intervention research
BIO
Amanda Bunting is an interdisciplinary sociologist, whose research focuses on the substance use, health disparities, and reentry needs of justice-involved individuals. She is particularly concerned with research of opioid and polysubstance use. Her doctoral training was completed at the University of Kentucky where, with the support of a National Institute of Drug Abuse T32 (T32-DA035200, PI: Rush), she examined the pre-incarceration polysubstance opioid patterns of justice-involved individuals and associated post-release outcomes. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine through the Training Program in Healthcare Delivery Science and Population Health Research (T32-HS026120-01, PIs: Schwartz & Horwitz). Additionally, she is the postdoctoral fellow for Dr. Jennifer McNeely, on her Clinical Trial Network study funded by the HEAL initiative. This multisite study examines the efficacy of a primary care Subthreshold Opioid Use Disorder Prevention (STOP) intervention to reduce unhealthy opioid use (CTN-0101, PI: McNeely). In addition to her role as a postdoctoral fellow at NYU, Dr. Bunting is a trainee as part of the Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Program on Substance Use and HIV at Brown University (R25DA037190, PI: Beckwith).
Projects
Principal Investigator, A Pilot Life-Course Analytic Framework for Analyzing Comorbidity Clusters among Individuals with HIV and Substance Use. Active
Principal Investigator, Adaption of the STAIR-NT Trauma Intervention for Polysubstance Populations. Active
Principal Investigator, Development of a Novel Polysubstance Assessment Tool for Vulnerable Subpopulations. Active
Principal Investigator, Association of Polysubstance Patterns with Trauma Typologies: An Ancillary Study. Completed
Principal Investigator, Dietary Habits and Unmet Nutritional Needs of Individuals in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs. Completed
Publications

Recent

Gu EY, Irvine N, Miller M, Ramirez E, Santaella-Tenorio J, Lippincott T, Bogenschutz MP, Bunting AM, Meacham MC, Krawczyk N (2026).
“I can objectively view my trauma without feeling like I’m there”: Reddit discussions on self-reported use of psychedelics to address co-occurring substance use and mental health needs
Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 10 (3), 286-296. doi: 10.1556/2054.2026.00487.

Kelly JF, Zemore S, Vilsaint CL, Haegerich T, Huggins W, Ives C, Hill C, Hamilton CM, Vidot D, Thrul J, McNeil R, Hopfer C, Bunting A, Buu A (2026).
Mapping and measuring addiction recovery: Recommended protocols through the PHENX toolkit
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 286, 113265. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2026.113265.

Cadet K, Jordan AE, Krawczyk N, Hall A, Lincourt P, Mund P, Bunting AM (2026).
Policy pathways for addressing opioid-stimulant polysubstance use
Substance Use & Addiction Journal [Epub 2026 Aug 19]. doi: 10.1177/29767342261469746.

Lally JS, Crowley RJ, Mann K, Kline DM, Bunting AM (2026).
Representation of female physicians in the United States, 2014-2024
Academic Medicine, 101 (8), 969-977. doi: 10.1093/acamed/wvag045.

Bunting AM, Griffin B, Rubens A, Lima D, Lam V, Bender M, Fawole A, McNeely J, Cleland CM (2026).
Refining a novel measure of polysubstance use: Applying the cognitive interview method with people who use drugs
Substance Use and Misuse, 61 (11), 1921-1927. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2026.2632181. PMCID: PMC13011491.

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