Staff Publications & Presentations

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

Watson, D. P., Andraka-Christou, B., Clarke, T., & Wiegandt, J. (2020). Introduction to the special issue on innovative interventions and approaches to expand medication assisted treatment: Seizing research opportunities made available by the opioid STR program. Journal of substance abuse treatment, 108, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.10.004

Watson, D. P., Brucker, K., McGuire, A., Snow-Hill, N. L., Xu, H., Cohen, A., Campbell, M., Robison, L., Sightes, E., Buhner, R., O'Donnell, D.,& Kline, J. A.(2020). Replication of an emergency department-based recovery coaching intervention and pilot testing of pragmatic trial protocols within the context of Indiana's Opioid State Targeted Response plan. Journal of substance abuse treatment, 108, 88–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.06.002

Watson, D. P., Buchanan, V., Brown, B., Inman, H., & Freeman, S. (2013, October). The‘little things’ that make recovery work: An evaluation of Indiana’s Access to Recovery(ATR) Program. [Conference session]. 2013 Addiction Health Services Research Conference, Portland, OR.

Watson, D. P., Clark, K., Dennis, M. L., Grella, C. E., & Hart, M. K. (2025).“They don’t give you no note if it’s got fentanyl”: Using cognitive interviews to understand self-report and urine drug screen discrepancies. Substance Use: Research and Treatment, 19, 29768357251316220. https://doi.org/10.1177/2976835725131622

Watson, D. P., Dennis, M. L., & Grella, C. E. (2024, July). Using cognitive interviews to explore discrepancies in criminal legal system-involved study participants’ urine test results and perceived fentanyl exposure. [Conference Session]. 38th International Academy of Law and Mental Health Congress, Barcelona, Spain.

Watson, D. P., Dewey, J., Sarapas, C., & Taylor, L. (2023, December). Cook County Health community health workers for COVID response and resilient communities: Year 2 evaluation report. Chestnut Health Systems

Watson, D. P., Dewey, J., Sarapas, C., Taylor, L. (2023). Cook County Health Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities Year 2 Evaluation Report. Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems.

Watson, D. P., Etminan, S., & Gastala, N. (2023). Sublingual buprenorphine-naloxone exposure and dental disease. JAMA, 329(14), 1223–1224. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803524

Watson, D. P., Franceschini, D., Swartz, J. A., Dewey, J., Mackesy-Amiti, M. E., Taylor, L., Staton, M., Zhao, P., Messmer, S., Jimenez, A. D., & Gastala, N.(2024, June) Syringe Exchange-Based Telemedicine Linkage to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Results from a mixed method randomized trial of the STAMINA intervention. [Conference session]. College on Problems of Drug Dependence 86th Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Watson, D. P., George, C., Orwat, J., & Hoffman, M. (2010). Formative evaluation of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s Treatment Coordinator Pilot Program, phase 2. Center for Urban Research and Learning.

Watson, D. P., Greene, M., & Wright, E. R. (2013, August). Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders in Indiana: Epidemiological profile of a treatment population. [Conference session]. 2013 meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY.

Watson, D. P., Hudson, M., & Taylor, L. (2025, October). Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities evaluation report: Year 4 extension period. Chestnut Health Systems Lighthouse Institute, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P., Jacobs, E.,& Tobin, M. (2007). Evaluation of the University of Michigan’s youth evaluation workshop. Prepared by authors for the Center for Urban Research and Learning.