Dr. Tyler Marshall is the lead health research consultant and Founder/CEO of Marshall Clinical Research Consulting, Inc. In 2023, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship studying artificially intelligent chatbots in the context of public mental health at the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta.
Prior to this, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship studying virtual/digital harm reduction approaches for people who use drugs at the Department of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr. Marshall completed his PhD in psychiatry (research) at the University of Alberta in 2021. His doctoral dissertation investigated the impact of shared decision-making on health and patient-reported outcomes and risk factors for opioid use disorder among emerging adults with substance use and mental health concerns. He won several awards, including the Dean’s Doctoral Student Award during this time. Prior to studying at the University of Alberta, Marshall earned a master’s degree in public health (MPH), studying epidemiology, social determinants of health and survey methodology from the University of Memphis (TN, USA). He earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience (BSc) from Rhodes College (TN, USA) in 2015.
Dr. Marshall has diverse subject matter interests in public health approaches to mental health and substance use, including harm reduction, early intervention, treatment of concurrent disorders, and drug policy. He currently serves as an assistant/associate editor at the academic journal Emerging Adulthood. Dr. Marshall has obtained doctoral-level training in systematic/scoping review methodology, observational study and survey study designs, multivariate and structural equation modelling, and qualitative methods. He has diverse health research experiences gained through graduate research and teaching assistantships, clinical volunteering at harm reduction centres, and clinical shadowing programs.
