Greta Bushnell, PhD

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology,
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health

Core Member, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science,
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Greta Bushnell is a pharmacoepidemiologist focused on studying the use, effectiveness, and safety of pharmaceuticals prescribed to treat mental illnesses in young people. Dr. Bushnell started at Rutgers in 2020 and is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology with the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health and is a core member of PETS. She is also the Program Lead for the MS-Epidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology concentration program with the Rutgers School of Public Health. She earned her PhD and MSPH in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she focused in pharmacoepidemiology. Dr. Bushnell then held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Broadly, Dr. Bushnell’s research focuses in the areas of psychiatric and pediatric pharmacoepidemiology and aims to improve treatment and outcomes in young people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders through informing clinical treatment decisions, policy, and interventions. Dr. Bushnell’s research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute on Drug Abuse and has been published in JAMA Psychiatry, JAMA Open Network, Pediatrics, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.

Active Grants
May 2025 – February 2030
ADHD and Sleep: Evaluating the Impact of Drug-Drug and Drug-Disease Interactions to Inform Care
NIH/NIMH (R01MH135875)
Principal Investigator

September 2024 – September 2026
Informing national overdose prevention and treatment strategies for high-risk adolescents
NIH/NIDA (R21DA062273)
Multiple Principal Investigator

March 2021 – February 2026
Benzodiazepine-related harms in young people: Informing policy, interventions, and prescribing
NIH/NIDA (K01DA050769)
Principal Investigator