Jamie Wren
Research Associate
Anthropology
Contact
Jamie Wren is the Project Director for the Maine Violent Death Reporting System and Maine’s Sudden Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System. His research interests include: factors contributing to suicidality in rural areas; suicide among veterans and first responders; opioid-related mortality; skeletal impacts of substance use; and forensic death investigation. Jamie also serves as Program Coordinator for the Maine Policy Scholars Program. He began working with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center in 2010 as a student researcher and joined the Center’s staff as a Research Associate in 2015.
Areas of Expertise
Biological Anthropology
Public Health
Public Health
Education
PhD, Anthropology and Kinesiology, University of Maine, 2024
M.A. Public Health, University of New England, 2015
B.A. Anthropology, University of Maine, 2012
M.A. Public Health, University of New England, 2015
B.A. Anthropology, University of Maine, 2012
