Pia M. Mauro, PhD

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

Core Member, Rutgers Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science

Pia M. Mauro, PhD, is a core faculty member of the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science (PETS) with the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH). She is also an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Dr. Mauro’s research examines individual and structural drivers of substance use and mental health treatment need, availability, use, and outcomes over the life course through a health equity lens. Her work at the intersection of behavioral health epidemiology, health services, and health policy leverages large administrative data sources and applies rigorous epidemiologic methods. Her scholarship has been published in high impact journals, such as JAMA Network Open, Medical Care, American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Mauro is a Principal Investigator of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) R01 project examining relationships between community-level exposure to the criminal legal system and substance use treatment-related outcomes. She contributes her expertise as a co-investigator in various NIDA R01 projects. She completed a 5-year NIDA K01 Career Development Award focusing on cannabis laws and substance use disorder treatment. In 2024, she was invited by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to present as an expert on how changing cannabis laws have impacted treatment for cannabis use disorder in the United States.

Prior to joining Rutgers, Dr. Mauro was an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where she also completed a NIDA-funded T32 postdoctoral research fellowship in substance use epidemiology. She obtained a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Mental Health with the support of a NIDA-funded T32 pre-doctoral research fellowship.