Dr. Croff is the Executive Director of Clinical and Population Research at the National Center for Wellness and Recovery and a Professor in the Department of Rural Health at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. Dr. Croff also serves as Oklahoma State Medical Proceedings Section Co-Editor for Public Health. Previously, she served as the founding Director of the MPH program at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Croff’s research focuses on perinatal substance use and co-occurring exposures among diverse cohorts of women. She is currently the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded projects. Among them, the planning phase of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, a longitudinal research project which seeks to better understand the role of prenatal exposures on neurodevelopment. A COVID-19 study, which seeks to understand how social and economic consequences of COVID-19 response affect mothers with substance use disorders, compared to those without substance use disorders. And the Tulsa FAB Study, which explores the interaction of substance use and dietary behavior in the periconceptional period. Dr. Croff has published widely in the area of alcohol and other drugs, across vulnerable populations. She received her PhD in Public Health, with emphasis on health behavior, from the joint program at the University of California San Diego and San Diego State University. She received her Master of Public Health with emphasis on Social and Behavioral Sciences from Boston University, and her Bachelors in Biology from San Diego State University.