Dr. Eyer serves as the Director of the Southern Regional Drug Data Research Center (DDRC), housed in the Institute of Data & Analytics (IDA) in the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama. Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (#15PBJA-22-GK-03724-COMB), the DDRC seeks to integrate drug-related data from 17 southeastern states. Dr. Eyer is a graduate of the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, where he obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology with a Health Psychology focus. He holds post-graduate specialization in clinical health psychology, applied biostatistics, and community-engaged mixed methodologies, supplemented by a fellowship to the NIH Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials. For 12 years, he has applied this expertise primarily to federally funded community-engaged research projects as a content expert, biostatistician, and methodologist. His position provides access to the significant resources of the IDA, a core provider of analytic services at the university, and facilitates his research that seeks out data-driven solutions to public health problems. Currently, he serves as a multi-PI on a three-year Rural Communities Opioid Response Program Implementation Grant (#GA1RH39611), funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, that is focused on building community resources to promote prevention, treatment, and recovery in five northwestern Alabama counties, and he contributes to several other federally funded programs. He has additional expertise in integrated behavioral healthcare, community-engaged research, the health of vulnerable populations—especially sexual and gender minorities, rural residents, and substance-using individuals—and more broadly, the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors associated with health, mental health, wellbeing, illness, and disability.