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About Our Guest
Dr. Debra Cooper received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Duke University and her PhD in Neuroscience from Emory University. Her graduate research focused on studying treatments for drug addiction. After receiving her doctorate, she continued doing research in drug addiction as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. In 2014, Dr. Cooper was selected to serve as a California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Policy Fellow where she was placed in the California State Senate Office of Research. She continued working in the State Legislature for 8 years with roles as Principal Consultant for the Senate Appropriations Committee and as the Chief Consultant for the Assembly Human Services Committee. She is currently an Assistant Secretary at the California Health & Human Services Agency in the Office of Program and Fiscal Affairs.
