Tessa Frohe

Dr. Frohe is currently an NIAAA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, working with Drs. Seema Clifasefi, Susan Collins, and Mary Larimer. She moved to Seattle in September 2020 after graduating with her PhD from the University of Florida in August 2020. Dr. Frohe’s current research interests lie at the intersection of motivating factors to use substances (e.g., pain, cravings, isolation, and cognitive biases), digital health, and harm reduction treatments. She is especially interested in developing, evaluating, and disseminating digital health interventions informed by community-based participatory research and user-centered design principles for marginalized communities (e.g., people with lived experience of homelessness). Her long-term goals are to specialize in designing, refining, and disseminating programs and digital health interventions that can be complimentary to other low-barrier treatment methods, within community-based settings (e.g., permanent supportive Housing First facilities). Ultimately, Dr. Frohe hopes that by empowering individuals with better access to technology, her work may lead to higher levels of digital literacy that can help to ameliorate substance-related harms and improve individuals’ quality of life.

Outside of work Dr. Frohe enjoys hiking, doing yoga, cooking, and listening to live music.