Tasha Perdue is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. Her research contextualizes drug use by exploring public policy and criminal justice responses to drug use disorders to better understand socio-cultural factors associated with risk and protective behaviors and the subsequent impact on substance use trajectories. She is especially interested in applying intersectional mixed methods approaches to understand and address disparities in all stages of the criminal legal system. Her first line of research is funded by The Ohio State University Addiction Innovation Initiative Fund. This project includes interviews with people who use drugs and law enforcement officers to investigate the role of stigma on officer-involved overdose response and the implementation of Ohio’s Good Samaritan Law. She is also the Co-PI on a National Institute of Justice funded mixed methods study examining racial disparities in drug sentencing and admittance to drug court. An emerging line of research seeks to understand and identify intervention points to overdose prevention in the criminal legal system with an interest in examining stigma toward medications for opioid use disorder within correctional facilities.