Mary Hawk is professor and chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences.
Her work centers on approaches that advance health equity for historically excluded populations and research interests include implementation and assessment of structural interventions to improve health outcomes for those with substance abuse disorders and other oppressed populations, program evaluation to enhance service delivery in health and public health settings, and the development of community-engaged approaches to optimize public health.
Hawk is multiple principal investigator of a National Institute of Drug Abuse-funded study using mixed methods to investigate experiences of stigma in healthcare settings by people living with HIV who use drugs. She is co-founder of The Open Door, Inc., a harm reduction housing program created to improve health outcomes for chronically homeless people living with HIV who have untreated serious mental illness and harmful substance use. She is also multiple principal investigator on two training grants: a D43 training grant through Fogarty International/NIMH that seeks to increase research capacity and infrastructure among junior psychiatrists in India, and a T32 training grant a T32 Training grant addressing HIV-related health disparities in MSM.