Dr. Hélène Chokron Garneau joined the Stanford Center for Dissemination and Implementation in 2019 as a Senior Research Scientist. Dr. Chokron Garneau has extensive research experience in public health and substance use, with an emphasis on co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders. Her current efforts at CDI focus on advancing implementation science by disentangling mechanisms through which implementation strategies operate. She is particularly interested in applying this knowledge to improve access to evidence-based health services.

Dr. Chokron Garneau obtained both her PhD and MPH in Public Health from UCLA where she concurrently worked to assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of behavioral interventions for substance users with comorbid psychiatric diagnoses.