Emily A Hennessy is associate director of the Recovery Research Institute, director of Biostatistics at RRI and assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She serves as Associate Methods Editor for the International Coordinating Group of the Campbell Collaboration and is on the editorial board of Psychological Bulletin.

She is co-author with David Best of the new Handbook of Recovery Capital , due out in April 2025.

She was a Fulbright Scholar to Norway where she completed a MPhil in Health Promotion and focused on adolescent well-being. She completed her PhD in Community Research and Action at Vanderbilt University and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Connecticut in the Systematic Health Action Research Program (SHARP) Lab.

Dr Hennessy’s research examines factors associated with health behavior change among adolescents. Her primary area of research, adolescent substance use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery, is funded by a career development award (K01) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. This study examines social network and recovery capital mechanisms of the recovery process in adolescents using social identity mapping.

A secondary area of her research is in conducting evidence syntheses and in improving methods for evidence synthesis.