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Amanda Bunting
Amanda M. Bunting, PhD
NYU Langone Health - Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Email: amanda.bunting@nyulangone.org
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Kentucky
MA, Applied Sociology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Research Interests
Polysubstance use, Opioid use, Justice-involved, Criminal justice, Reentry, Health service utilization, Intervention research
BIO
Amanda Bunting is an interdisciplinary sociologist, whose research focuses on the substance use, health disparities, and reentry needs of justice-involved individuals. She is particularly concerned with research of opioid and polysubstance use. Her doctoral training was completed at the University of Kentucky where, with the support of a National Institute of Drug Abuse T32 (T32-DA035200, PI: Rush), she examined the pre-incarceration polysubstance opioid patterns of justice-involved individuals and associated post-release outcomes. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine through the Training Program in Healthcare Delivery Science and Population Health Research (T32-HS026120-01, PIs: Schwartz & Horwitz). Additionally, she is the postdoctoral fellow for Dr. Jennifer McNeely, on her Clinical Trial Network study funded by the HEAL initiative. This multisite study examines the efficacy of a primary care Subthreshold Opioid Use Disorder Prevention (STOP) intervention to reduce unhealthy opioid use (CTN-0101, PI: McNeely). In addition to her role as a postdoctoral fellow at NYU, Dr. Bunting is a trainee as part of the Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Program on Substance Use and HIV at Brown University (R25DA037190, PI: Beckwith).
Projects
Principal Investigator, A Pilot Life-Course Analytic Framework for Analyzing Comorbidity Clusters among Individuals with HIV and Substance Use. Active
Principal Investigator, Adaption of the STAIR-NT Trauma Intervention for Polysubstance Populations. Active
Principal Investigator, Development of a Novel Polysubstance Assessment Tool for Vulnerable Subpopulations. Active
Principal Investigator, Association of Polysubstance Patterns with Trauma Typologies: An Ancillary Study. Completed
Principal Investigator, Dietary Habits and Unmet Nutritional Needs of Individuals in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs. Completed
Publications

Recent

Bunting AM, Winstanley EL (2026).
Guiding principles for clinical research on substance use disorders in rural communities
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment [Epub 2026 Apr 24]. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2026.209998.

Gu EY, Irvine N, Miller M, Ramirez E, Santaella-Tenorio J, Lippincott T, Bogenschutz MP, Bunting AM, Meacham MC, Krawczyk N (2026).
“I can objectively view my trauma without feeling like I’m there”: Reddit discussions on self-reported use of psychedelics to address co-occurring substance use and mental health needs
Journal of Psychedelic Studies [Epub 2026 Mar 30]. doi: 10.1556/2054.2026.00487.

Laskowski LK, Khezri M, Bennett AS, Lee M, Walters SM, Allen B, Bunting AM (2026).
The prevention education partnership: A public-academic partnership to expand overdose education and naloxone training in New York City public schools
Health Promotion Practice, 27 (2), 227-232. doi: 10.1177/15248399251318695. PMCID: PMC12353646.

Bunting AM, Griffin B, Rubens A, Lima D, Lam V, Bender M, Fawole A, McNeely J, Cleland CM (2026).
Refining a novel measure of polysubstance use: Applying the cognitive interview method with people who use drugs
Substance Use and Misuse [Epub 2026 Feb 20]. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2026.2632181. PMCID: PMC13011491.

Bunting AM, Cleland CM, Barratt SM, Griffin B, Williams J, Oser CB, Lee JD, McNeely J (2026).
The polysubstance assessment tool: Reliability, acceptability and feasibility of a novel measure of polysubstance use
Addiction [Epub 2026 Feb 12]. doi: 10.1111/add.70349.

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