Dr. Bailey received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Purdue University and completed her pre-doctoral training at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium (Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine track). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of Oregon and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist.

She has authored/co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal publications with 118 co-authors nationwide. Her work examining the associations between patient factors and smoking cessation assistance in U.S. safety-net clinics was recognized by both Reuters and U.S. News & World Report. Dr. Bailey has been an ad hoc reviewer for NIH's Interventions to Prevent and Treat Addictions (IPTA) study section and is a Full Member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD). She has been an active member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco for over 20 years.

Dr. Bailey's work focuses understanding and eliminating treatment-related disparities for smoking cessation assistance among our most vulnerable populations. Her primary scholarly contributions focus on predictors of smoking cessation treatment success, provision of smoking cessation assistance in health care settings, and the development of smoking cessation interventions.