Dr. Sawyer-Morris studies ways to leverage data science and technology to expand access, reduce patient burden, and optimize the equitable delivery of evidence-based addiction treatments. Her research is person-centered and focuses on the design, use, and evaluation of digital tools (e.g., data dashboards, mobile health apps, digital therapeutics) to address inequities and reduce health disparities among people living with addiction. Sawyer-Morris manages multiple NIDA-funded grants, including the development of a digital therapeutic for justice-involved populations (MPIs: Gordon & Carswell) and her recently-funded diversity supplement at the Research Adoption and Support Center (RASC; PI: McGovern) at Stanford University. She completed her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of Delaware with a specialized focus in advanced quantitative methodology and addiction science. She was a Dr. James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where she explored novel applications of unsupervised, non-linear machine learning models (e.g., autoencoder) in health disparities research. Prior to joining Friends Research Institute, she completed a postdoctoral appointment at the Addiction Policy Forum and George Mason University where she contributed to NIDA-funded dissemination and implementation initiatives like ​​the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network Coordination & Translation Center (JCOIN CTC; PI: Taxman) and HEAL Connections (PI: Taxman).