Robert Pack, PhD, MPH, is Executive Vice Provost at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and Professor of Community and Behavioral Health in the ETSU College of Public Health. He is Director of the ETSU Addiction Science Center, Director of the ETSU/NORC Rural Health Equity Research Center, and Co-Director of the Opioid Research Consortium of Central Appalachia (ORCCA). Funding for this work is generously granted from NIDA, HRSA, SAMHSA, PCORI and the Care Foundation of America. 

Dr. Pack also serves as board chairman for the non-profit opioid treatment program Overmountain Recovery, board member for One Tennessee Health, on the Appalachian Regional Commission Substance Abuse Advisory Council, and has served as a Technical Expert for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. 

In 2019, Dr. Pack chaired the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health (ASPPH) Task Force on Public Health Approaches to Control the Epidemic of Opioid Use Disorder; the Task Force reported on best practices for the use of future opioid settlement resources. He is a member of Class VIII of Leadership Tennessee.