Full–time Research Staff
Janie Slayden
jslayden@umich.edu
Senior Research Area Specialist
1237 Lane Hall
734-615-0249
Ms. Slayden is a research project manager with a broad range of experience in large, complex local and national studies. Her personal research interests correspond to the projects she has managed, namely substance use/abuse, general mental health, disaster mental health, and community health and social welfare. She has managed research studies in Detroit neighborhoods, hospitals, prisons, college campuses, residential treatment centers, and, currently, West Africa. She is former research associate director of the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research.
Ms. Slayden earned her MA in clinical and educational psychology from Wayne State University (1984).

