Elissa Weitzman – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Using social media and online search to better track individual alcohol use and corroborate state-level data

December 11, 2019

Elissa Weitzman, ScD, is principal investigator of a study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that demonstrates how personally generated data — captured and tracked using such online tools as Google searches and social media…

Screen shot of a Google search field with the search term "liquore"

Alcohol use disorders are on the rise and compounding dangers of opioid misuse among U.S. adolescents and young adults

June 10, 2019

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Elissa R. Weitzman, ScD, is author of a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine that calls for additional research about this alarming trend in order to develop and deploy interventions aimed at…

A look at alcohol use among youth taking alcohol-interactive medications

November 02, 2018

Elissa Weitzman, ScD, Harvard Pop Center faculty member and associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, is an author on a study that found that youth with chronic medical conditions who take medications that can interact negatively…