Shannon Monnat is the Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Monnat is a demographer whose research examines trends and geographic differences in health and mortality, with a special interest in rural health. Her most recent research has focused on the social, structural, and spatial determinants of substance use and overdose. Read moreMonnat has consulted about causes and solutions for addressing the overdose crisis with several national and international organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Monnat has been the PI or co-PI on several large federal agency and foundation grants, including through NIH, USDA, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Institute for New Economic Thinking. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Consensus Committee on High and Rising Mortality Rates among Working Age Adults and a Co-PI on the NIA-funded Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA).
