Roxanne Vandermause's research focus is in the area of women's mental health and addictions and community mental health. She uses multi-method approaches to examine women's recovery, parenting in recovery, adolescent girls in chemical dependency treatment, and disparities in community health. She has completed a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-funded study on the medication-taking practices of older adults with multiple chronic conditions in Washington State. Her work with PCORI led her to become involved as a co-investigator with Dr. Sheila Grigsby of UMSL in a PCORI-funded community engagement project to develop a community partnership to conduct research addressing access to primary care for children and adolescents in the north side of the St. Louis region. She is involved in several other projects, including an NIH-funded project to enhance capacity for mental health research in Cambodia (Robert Paul, PI). She has co-authored a book, Doing Hermeneutic Phenomenology: A Practical Guide, to be published by Sage in Fall 2020.