dr.lulabeatty

Lula A. Beatty, Ph. D.

Lula A. Beatty is Director of the Special Populations Office, Office of the Director, at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health. Her responsibilities include developing racial/ethnic minority research and health disparities programs, developing initiatives to encourage the increased participation of underrepresented scholars in drug abuse and addiction research, and monitoring NIDA's support of racial/ethnic minority and health disparities research. Programs in her office include the Diversity Supplement Program, Summer Research with NIDA, the Research Development Seminar Series, the Diversity-promoting Institutions Drug Abuse Research Program, and expert work groups on drug abuse in racial/ethnic minority populations (e.g., African American Researchers and Scholars Workgroup, National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse). Before joining NIDA, she was Director of Research at the Institute for Urban Affairs and Research at Howard University. She was involved in programs on child abuse prevention, strengths in Black families, and father involvement in Head Start.

She received her A.B. degree from Lincoln University (PA) and doctoral degree in psychology from Howard University.