Devin Banks
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-362-6565
- Email: banks.devin@nospam.wustl.edu
Education & Training
- PhD, Clinical Psychology: Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, 2020
- Predoctoral Internship: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 2020
- MS: Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, 2016
- BA: University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2011
Major Awards
- Scholar, Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences KL2 Career Development Award, 2021
- Scholar, NIDA R25 HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program, 2020
Research Interests
Racial and cultural determinants of health; substance use development and prevention; behavioral health equity; community-based research and intervention
Key Publications
- Winograd R, Budesa Z, Banks D, Carpenter R, Wood CA, Duello A, Thater P, Smith C, (2023 Jul). Outcomes of State Targeted/Opioid Response Grants and the Medication First Approach: Evidence of Racial Inequities in Improved Treatment Access and Retention. Subst Abus. 44(3): 184-195.
Read publication »Outcomes of State Targeted/Opioid Response Grants and the Medication First Approach: Evidence of Racial Inequities in Improved Treatment Access and Retention. - Banks DE, Scroggins S, Paschke ME, Shacham E, Nance M, Cavazos-Rehg P, Winograd RP, (2023 Jun). Examining Increasing Racial Inequities in Opioid Overdose Deaths: a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Black and White Decedents in St. Louis, Missouri, 2011-2021. J Urban Health. 100(3): 436-446.
Read publication »Examining Increasing Racial Inequities in Opioid Overdose Deaths: a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Black and White Decedents in St. Louis, Missouri, 2011-2021. - Banks DE, Duello A, Paschke ME, Grigsby SR, Winograd RP, (2023 Jan). Identifying drivers of increasing opioid overdose deaths among black individuals: a qualitative model drawing on experience of peers and community health workers. Harm Reduct J. 20(1): 5.
Read publication »Identifying drivers of increasing opioid overdose deaths among black individuals: a qualitative model drawing on experience of peers and community health workers. - Banks DE, Clifton RL, Wheeler PB, (2021 Mar). Racial identity, discrimination, and polysubstance use: Examining culturally relevant correlates of substance use profiles among Black young adults. Psychol Addict Behav. 35(2): 224-230.
Read publication »Racial identity, discrimination, and polysubstance use: Examining culturally relevant correlates of substance use profiles among Black young adults. - Banks DE, Hensel DJ, Zapolski TCB, (2020 Aug). Integrating Individual and Contextual Factors to Explain Disparities in HIV/STI Among Heterosexual African American Youth: A Contemporary Literature Review and Social Ecological Model. Arch Sex Behav. 49(6): 1939-1964.
Read publication »Integrating Individual and Contextual Factors to Explain Disparities in HIV/STI Among Heterosexual African American Youth: A Contemporary Literature Review and Social Ecological Model. - Banks DE, Rowe AT, Mpofu P, Zapolski TCB, (2017 Oct). Trends in typologies of concurrent alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette use among US adolescents: An ecological examination by sex and race/ethnicity. Drug Alcohol Depend. 179: 71-77.
Read publication »Trends in typologies of concurrent alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette use among US adolescents: An ecological examination by sex and race/ethnicity.
Funded Research Projects
NIDA(PI):An Integrated Geospatial and Community-Based Model to Prevent Opioid Overdose among Black Americans