Adriana Espinosa is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Colin Powell School, CCNY, faculty in the Health Psychology and Clinical Science PhD program at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and MPI of the NIH-funded U54 CCNY-MSK Partnership for Cancer Research, Education, and Community Outreach. 

Dr. Espinosa received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Statistics, Psychosocial Issues in Cancer, Emotional Intelligence, Grant writing, Behavioral Economics, Research Methods.

My research employs an intersectional perspective for addressing disparities in mental and physical health. Please visit my lab for details on current projects: https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/arhamp

Selected (recent) publications (Visit my personal website for a full list of publications):

Espinosa, A., Haeny, A., Ruglass, L. M., McCuistian, C., Vena, A., Roundtree, C., Lopez, J., Morgan-Lopez, A., & Burlew, K. (in press). Comparative effectiveness of social-contextual treatments for improving substance-related problems among Black adults: An individual-level data synthesis. Addiction.  

Espinosa, A., & Jette, J. (2025). Lifetime psychiatric diagnoses among NESARC-III Hispanic participants: A relative importance analysis of sociodemographic and social determinants of health. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-025-02406-9  

Espinosa, A., Ruglass, L. M., Conway, F. N., Pattanshetti, S., Ostroff, J. S., & Sheffer, C. E. (2025). Sex differences in cigarette smoking among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black All of Us participants: The relative importance of sociodemographic characteristics and social determinants of health. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-025-02349-1  

Espinosa, A., & Mulenga, L. (2024). Health consciousness: theory, measurement and evidence. Handbook of Concepts in Health, Health Behavior and Environmental Health (Ed. Liamputtong), Springer. https//doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0821-5_16-1 

Conway, F. N., Espinosa, A., Ruglass, L. M., Alexander, W., & Sheffer, C. (2024). It's not just Black and White: Identifying the combined influence of multi-level determinants of tobacco use among Black adolescents. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. (PMID: 38837913. PMCID: PMC11606040).  https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.23-00274

Espinosa, A., Conway, F. N., Ruglass, L. M., & Sheffer, C. (2023). Differences among Factors associated with tobacco product use among Black and White adolescents: A cross-sectional analysis of wave one of the PATH study (2013-2014). Tobacco Induced Diseases, 21, 54. https://doi.org/ 10.18332/tid/161932 

Espinosa, A., Ruglass, L. M., & Conway, F. N. (2023). The relative contribution of ethnic identity and ethnic discrimination on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use disorders among Hispanic/Latin American individuals. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment.

Espinosa, A. (2023). A psychometric and relative importance evaluation of health literacy and health consciousness on COVID-19 preventive behaviors among Hispanic adults. Health Education & Behavior, 50(2), 161-171