Erika Crable

Dr. Crable is an Assistant Professor with expertise in health policy, health services research, and implementation science. Her research investigates the roles of policy and politics in achieving health equity outcomes. Dr. Crable tests dissemination and implementation strategies aimed at improving how research is communicated to policy actors, and increasing access to evidence-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, harm reduction, and HIV prevention services for safety-net and criminal/legal-involved populations.

In 2025 she received a NIDA Avenir Award to develop and test innovative methods to address policy barriers that hinder access to effective SUD and HIV services. She is also PI of NIDA-funded K01 (PolicyWISE) that investigates how evidence is used to inform Medicaid benefits and tests dissemination strategies to improve access to medications for opioid use disorder in Medicaid benefit arrays across all US states and territories. Dr. Crable is Co-I of a NIDA R61/R33 (Data2Action Oregon) testing implementation strategies to support state and county data-driven decisions in Oregon. She is Co-I of a NIDA R33 that investigates the utility of simulation modeling, collaboration and dissemination strategies with health departments in 6 states on Reversing Overdose Epidemics through Simulation, Collaboration and Unified Efforts (RESCUE). Dr. Crable is also faculty in the Policy & Financing Core of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation at Stanford University (C-DIAS; NIDA P50) - a national center focused on advancing dissemination and implementation science while improving equitable access to addiction treatment. Dr. Crable enjoys and welcomes opportunities to mentor students and engage them in research on health policy, dissemination and implementation science topics.

Dr. Crable is an alumna of the NIMH/NIDA-funded Implementation Research Institute Fellowship and the NIDA-funded Lifespan/Brown University Criminal Justice Research Training Program Fellowship. She previously worked as a health policy consultant to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), amongst other federal and state entities.