Eden Griffin (she/her) | Director | egriffin@omni.org

Dr. Eden Griffin is a Director at OMNI Institute with a primary focus in Behavioral Health. Dr. Griffin oversees numerous large-scale evaluations of statewide substance use prevention projects, including the State of Alabama and the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Substance Abuse Block Grant prevention efforts, both funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). She also oversees the evaluation of Alabama's multi-year SAMHSA-funded Strategic Prevention Framework for Prescriptions Drugs grant (SPF-Rx) and Virginia's State Opioid Response (SOR) grant prevention efforts aimed at reducing prescription drug misuse and its consequences. In addition to oversight of state-level prevention evaluation, Dr. Griffin has also guided numerous government entities through needs assessment and comprehensive evaluation planning processes to align prevention priorities with demonstrated need and evidence-based best practices. She is currently overseeing and providing evaluation consultation on multiple projects focused on the utilization of opioid settlement funds.

Dr. Griffin provides senior leadership at OMNI to our supervisory and technical assistance teams and oversees our internal Survey Best Practices Team.

Dr. Griffin lives in Colorado and spends her time outside of OMNI with her husband and two children, reading a great book, or getting outside for a long walk.

“Working at OMNI is a clear values match for me. I love knowing that my time, skills, and training are making an impact in a tangible way.”

CONTENT EXPERTISE

Behavioral Health

Substance Use Prevention

EDUCATION

University of Texas, Austin
Ph.D., M.A., Human Development and Family Studies

University of Colorado, Boulder
B.A., Psychology

+ Awards & Service

  • Ad-hoc Reviewer, The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences
  • Ad-hoc Reviewer, Journal of GLBT Family Studies
  • Academic Enrichment Grant, The Aging Network, the University of Texas at Austin
  • Administrative Director, Graduate Student Assembly, the University of Texas at Austin
  • Dean’s Excellence Award Graduate Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin
  • Durrett Scholarship for Professional Development, the University of Texas at Austin

+ Certifications & Training

  • Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (SAMHSA) (2018)
  • Teaching Certificate in First-Year Interdisciplinary Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin (2014)

+ Selected Publications

  1. Griffin, E. M. & Fingerman, K. L. (in press). Empty Nest. In J. J. Ponzetti, Jr. (Ed.), Macmillian encyclopedia of intimate and family relationships: An interdisciplinary approach. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
  2. Diehl, M., Griffin, E., & Brothers, A. F. (2018). Dynamic integration theory. In O. Braddick (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  3. Griffin, E. M. & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). Online dating profile content of older adults seeking same- and cross-sex relationships. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 14, 446-466. doi: 10.1080/1550428X.2017.1393362
  4. Davis, E. M. (2018). Empty nest. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of lifespan human development (pp.749-750). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. doi: 10.4135/9781506307633.n280
  5. Davis, E. M., Kim, K., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). Is an empty nest best?: Coresidence with adult children and parental marital quality before and after the Great Recession. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 73, 372-381. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw022
  6. Davis, E. M. & Fingerman, K. L. (2017, February). Looking for love: Online profile content of older and younger gay, lesbian, and heterosexual adults. Poster presented at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
  7. Davis, E. M. & Fingerman, K. L. (2016). Digital dating: Online profile content of older and younger adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 71, 959-967. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbv042
  8. Davis, E. M. & Fingerman, K. L. (2016, November). Looking for love: Online profile content of older and younger gay, lesbian, and heterosexual adults. Poster presented at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, LA.
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