Aaron Williams currently serves as the Associate Director of Research and Information for the Danya Institute, Inc. where he is responsible for the collection, analysis, management, and dissemination of all research related to Institute endeavors. Mr. Williams has a more than 7 years of research experience in the field of behavioral health science with demonstrated abilities in developing research plans and assessment methodologies for experiments. In his previous job, Mr. Williams worked as a Research Associate for Danya International, Inc. While at Danya International, Mr. Williams had the opportunity to work on several substance abuse treatment and prevention related government grants and contracts including work as a research associate on a U.S State Department funded grant to evaluate substance abuse treatment programs in foreign countries.

Mr. Williams also has significant experience developing training strategies and assessment methodologies for experiments through his previous work as a Research Fellow at the Army’s Behavioral Science Research Institute (ARI). He has been with the Danya Institute since 2001 and in that time he has written and contributed to numerous articles and reports on drugs of abuse and issues related to workforce development of substance abuse professionals. During this time he has also led several state wide survey projects on issues related to workforce development of addictions professionals.