Adrian Bravo

Adrian J. Bravo, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the College of William & Mary. He has a PhD in Applied Experimental Psychology from Old Dominion University. His research interests focus on identifying who is most susceptible to the development of substance use and mental health disorders, under what conditions individuals engage in health risk behaviors that lead to poor mental health outcomes and problematic substance use, and what factors may decouple (specifically mindfulness) the relation between health risk factors and health outcomes across distinct populations (i.e., college students, clinical populations, and military personnel). He is the Founder and Principal Investigator of the Cross-Cultural Addiction Study Team (CAST; founded in 2016), a collective of international scientists (18 investigators across 7 countries) in the behavioral sciences with a shared vision of answering meaningful research questions regarding addictive behaviors (predominately substance use) that have important global policy, prevention, and/or treatment implications. He is also the Founder and Principal Investigator of the Hispanic Addiction Research Team (HART; founded in 2023) which is a collective of scientists (12 researchers across 8 U.S. universities) in the behavioral sciences with a shared vision of answering meaningful research questions regarding addictive behaviors (predominately substance use) and mental health that have important global policy, prevention, and/or treatment implications within the U.S. Hispanic/Latinx community. He has over 140 peer-reviewed publications in academic journals, serves as an Associate Editor on 3 peer-reviewed academic journals (Mindfulness, Cannabis, and Journal of Psychology and AI), and has several funded grants from the U.S. National Institute of Health, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and Argentina National Secretary of Science and Technology. Further, he is the current President of the Research Society on Marijuana (which he co-founded in 2016).