I am a Professor, appointed in the Departments of Rural Health and Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. I currently serve as the Director for the NIGMS-funded Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity. In this role, I support research cores, and faculty in their translational research. I also support the remote collection of biological, psychological, and social data in order to better understand human health in context. Our goal for this work is to expand remote prevention and healthcare activities to engage people where they live, work, play, and pray. I have served in other administrative roles across the OSU system for over a decade. My research focuses on substance use across the life course, but with a particularly emphasis on prevention and treatment during the periconceptional and prenatal time periods. I currently receive funding for my work from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institute for General Medical Sciences, and The Gates Foundation.