About Me
My work in criminal justice stems from my firm belief that criminal justice involvement represents one of the most important social and racial justice issues of our time. I am especially interested in how criminal justice research can directly inform criminal justice reform policies and how we can change the cultural narrative around crime and punishment in the US.
Biography
Dr.Zaller is a Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health. His research focus has been on the overlap between behavioral health disorders, including addiction and mental illness, infectious diseases and incarceration both in the United States and internationally. Dr. Zaller has been conducting substance use and HIV related research among criminal justice populations and within criminal justice institutions for the past 15 years. Dr. Zaller earned his bachelor's degree in microbiology and East Asian Studies from Kansas University in 1999. After graduation, he lived in China for a year as a Fulbright Scholar before completing a doctorate in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2005. Dr. Zaller went on to complete an NIH post-doctoral fellowship in HIV and Other Infectious Consequences of Substance Use at The Miriam Hospital and the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he served as a faculty member for 10 years prior to moving to Arkansas. He has current research funding as PI or MPI from 4 different NIH institutes, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Arnold Ventures.
Education
University of Kansas – 1999
MA in Microbiology and East Asian Studies
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 2005
International Health, Disease Control and Prevention
Contact
Email: ndzaller@uams.edu
Phone: 501-686-8366
