Staff Publications & Presentations

Watson, D. P. (2012, August). Calmer on the surface: An organizational study of four programs designed to house the mentally ill. [Conference session]. 2012 meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, CO.

Watson, D. P. (2011, October). Structure, agency, and mental health recovery: Comparing two models of(supportive?) housing for the chronically homeless. [Conference session]. 2011 meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Evanston, IL.

Watson, D. P. (2011, August). Negotiating mental health and illness: The recovery process in four consumer-centered housing programs. [Conference session]. Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV.

Watson, D. P. (2010, August). Understanding mental health and substance abuse recovery in Housing First programming. [Conference session]. Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Watson, D. P. (2010, April). The recovery process in community-based Housing First programming. [Conference session]. Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P. (2008, October). Changing beliefs and attitudes towards recovery: Evaluation of a harm reduction training assistance program. [Conference session]. Meeting of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology.

Watson, D. P. (2008, April). The Uptown Full Circle Community Mapping Project: The asset mapping process in a diverse community.[Conference session].  10th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P. (2008, March). Building networks in a diverse community. [Paper Presentation]. Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, MO.

Watson, D. P. (2007, November). Evaluation of business needs in a diverse community. [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Baltimore, MD.

Watson, D. P. (2003, April). Early initiation of binge drinking and smoking behaviors’ influence on student binge drinking and involvement in the Greek system. [Paper presentation]. Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P. (2024, January). Assessing peer recovery supports for emergency department patients with opioid use disorder. [Virtual Presentation]. Health Outcomes Seminar Series, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research, University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Watson, D. P. (2022, October). Approaches to housing people with substance use disorder: Harm reduction and implications for justice-involved residents.  [Virtual presentation.] NIDA JCOIN Webinar.

Watson, D. P. (2019, September). From intervention design to implementation strategy testing: Two examples of implementation studies with vulnerable populations. [Invited Presentation]. Center for Behavioral Health and Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

Watson, D. P. (2019, April). Development and Testing of a Multifaceted Implementation Strategy to Overcome Barriers to Harm Reduction Practice in Housing Frist Programming. [Invited Presentation]. Yale School of Public Health Seminar Series, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Watson, D. P. (2018, May). Lessons from Scott County: Indiana three years later. Pills, bills,& policy: Constructive conversations on opioids in Indiana.[Invited Panelist]. Side Effects Media/WFYI Public Radio. Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P. (2018, March). Indiana’s policy and programmatic responses to the opioid crisis. [Invited Presentation]. Center for Urban Research and Learning’s Friday Morning Seminar Series, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P. (2017, November). Engaging students through fishbowl discussions. [Invited Webinar]. Faculty Teaching Showcase, Center for Teaching and Learning, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P. (2017, October). Homelessness, housing,& harm reduction. [Invited Lecture]. Butler University, Department of Sociology and Criminology. Indianapolis, IN

Watson, D. P. (2017, September). Appropriately targeted recovery services for people experiencing homelessness. [Invited training]. Project PEERS recovery coach diversity training. Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P. (2017, August). Sociological perspectives on evaluation research. [Invited Panelist]. 2017 Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec.

Watson, D. P. (2016, August). Mental health and homelessness. [Invited Lecture]. Butler University, Department of Sociology and Criminology. Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P. (2013, October). Housing First: Current research and future directions. [Invited Presentation]. Indiana Statewide Conference on Housing and Community Economic Development, Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P. (2013, August). Housing First elements and implementation. [Invited Presentation]. Real Choice Systems Change, Integrated Supportive Housing Training, Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P. (2012, September). What makes Housing First work?: False perceptions and stories of success. [Invited Presentation]. Indiana Annual Recovery Month Symposium, Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P. (2010, August). National institutes of health funding opportunities for early-career sociologists: Tales from the field. [Invited Panelist]. Professional workshop at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Watson, D. P. (2008, March). Context’s town hall meeting. Invited Discussant.  Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, MO.

Watson, D. P. (2016, May). Evaluation of Indiana’s opioid prescription and naloxone policies. [Conference session]. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention for States Annual Grantee Meeting. Atlanta, GA.

Watson, D. P. (2014, May). Housing First and harm reduction: Overview and issues to consider when working with youth. [Training session]. Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth, Fort Wayne, IN.

Watson, D. P. (2012). The evolving understanding of recovery: What the sociology of mental health has to offer. Humanity and Society, 36, 290–308. PMCID: PMC3592967

Watson, D. P. (2023, October). Results from the POINT pragmatic trial: Assessment of a peer-based emergency department intervention for people who use opioids [Poster presentation]. Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) Conference, New York, NY, United States

Watson, D. P. (2024, June 12). Using cognitive interviews to explore discrepancies in criminal legal system-involved study participants' urine test results and perceived fentanyl exposure [Conference session]. Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) Research Conference, Bethesda, MD, United States. 

Watson, D. P. (2022). Cook County Health Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids(ED-ALT) Evaluation Report I. Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems.

Watson, D. P., & Andraka-Christou, B. (2025). Introduction to the special issue on legislative-driven responses to the opioid crisis: Expanding research and implementation through federal and state funding. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2025.209636

Watson, D. P., & Bruker, K. (2018, January). Project POINT: Testing linkage to care from the ED. [Invited presentation]. NIDA CTN workshop—Opioid overdose: Effective reversal and opioid use disorder(OUD) treatment engagement by emergency departments. Rockville, MD.

Watson, D. P., & Dewey, J. (2022, November). Formative results from the evaluation of the Cook County Recovery Home Coordinated Entry Project. [Virtual presentation]. NIDA JCOIN Webinar: Recovery housing for justice-involved individuals with opioid use disorder. 

Watson, D. P., & Edwards, R. (2019, April). Leveraging community-academic partnerships to address substance use disorder in a justice-involved population. [Conference session]. Opioid Data to Action. Indianapolis, IN, United States.

Watson, D. P., & Edwards, R. (2016, September). Leveraging community-academic partnerships to address critical health issues. [Conference session]. 2016 Indiana Public Health Conference. Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P., & Gastala, N.(2023, October). Recovery Management Checkups(RMC) for primary care settings: Future directions for an evidence-based substance use treatment and retention intervention. [Conference session] Illinois Primary Healthcare Association Leadership Conference. Schaumburg, IL. United States. 

Watson, D. P., & Gastala, N. (2023, October). Recovery Management Checkups (RMC) for primary care settings: Future directions for an evidence-based substance use treatment and retention intervention [Presentation]. Illinois Primary Healthcare Association Leadership Conference, Schaumburg, IL, United States

Watson, D. P., & George, C. (2009, March). Maneuvering in a changing job market: Older homeless people and employment in Chicago’s changing economy. [Conference session]. Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P., & George, C. C. (2009). Evaluation of the Midwest Harm Reduction Institute’s Harm Reduction Housing Training and Technical Assistance Program. Center for Urban Research and Learning.

Watson, D. P., & Hilvers, J. (2008). An evaluation of IABG’s governance and operations: Findings and recommendations from member surveys and interviews to inform 2009 project planning. Prepared by authors for Heartland Alliance for Health and Human Needs.

Watson, D. P., & Shuman, V. (2018, April). Development and testing of a distance-based Housing First Implementation Strategy. [Conference session]. Housing First Partners Conference, Denver, CO.

Watson, D. P., & Shuman, V. (2014, March). Consumer education: An essential element of Housing First. [Workshop session]. 2014 Housing First Partners Conference, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P., Adams, E. L., Omenka, I., Jackson, J., & Chesher, J. (2015, December). Identifying structural-level factors affecting implementation of complex interventions. [Conference session]. 8th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, Washington, D.C.

Watson, D. P., Adams, E. L., Shue, S., Coates, H., McGuire, A., Chesher, J., Jackson, J., & Omenka, I. (2018). Defining the external implementation context: An integrative systematic literature review. BMC Health Services Research, 18, 209. PMCID: PMC5870506

Watson, D. P., Adams, E.,& Jackson, J.(2017). Mental health policy in the United States: Critical reflection and future directions for sociological research. In T. L. Scheid& E. R. Wright(Ed.), A handbook for the study of mental health: Social contexts, theories, and systems (pp. 573-590). Cambridge University Press.

Watson, D. P., Ahonen, E. Q., Shuman, V., Brown, M., Tsemberis, S., Huynh, P., Ouyang, F., & Xu, H. (2018, December). Testing of an implementation strategy for the Housing First model: Outcomes from a mixed methods study. [Conference session]. 10th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, Washington, D.C, United States. 

Watson, D. P., Ahonen, E. Q., Shuman, V., Brown, M., Tsemberis, S., Huynh, P., Ouyang, F., & Xu, H. (2018). The Housing First Technical Assistance and Training (HFTAT) Implementation Strategy: Outcomes from a mixed methods study of three programs. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, & Policy, 13, 32. PMCID: PMC6151006

Watson, D. P., Ahonen, E. Q., Shuman, V., Brown, M., Tsemberis, S., Huynh, P., Ouyang, F.,& Xu, H.(2018). The housing first technical assistance and training(HFTAT) implementation strategy: outcomes from a mixed methods study of three programs. Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 13(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-018-0172-3