Dr. Godette-Greer is a public health researcher trained in the social and behavioral sciences. Here at NINR’s Division of Extramural Science Programs (DESP), her portfolio focuses on science viewed through two of our five lenses: Population and Community Health, and Prevention and Health Promotion. She also has extensive extramural experience across NIH and CDC, which are two operational divisions within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The cross-cutting areas that guide her research portfolio are social epidemiology (including social determinants of health), prevention, health disparities and health equity.
As a Program Director, Dr. Godette-Greer has overseen research portfolios in both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Also, she oversaw an extensive grant portfolio focused broadly on the epidemiology and prevention of excessive alcohol use and its consequences.
Prior to joining the NIH in 2011, Dr. Godette-Greer was tenure-track faculty at the University of Georgia, College of Public Health leading investigations focused on social determinants of health disparities in alcohol and other substance abuse.
Dr. Godette-Greer earned a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she focused on health disparities and health equity, and the Boston University School of Public Health, where she focused on underaged and young adult drinking. Prior to embarking on a career in research, Dr. Godette-Greer also worked as a substance abuse treatment counselor, counselor for adults suffering from severe mental illness and HIV/AIDS outreach counselor for adolescents at high risk of HIV infection.