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The population size of people who inject drugs (PWID) has likely increased during the second and third waves of the U.S. opioid crisis. Estimating the number of people who currently inject drugs is a difficult but critical step toward adequate resource allocation for health and harm reduction services. In this presentation, Dr. Heather Bradley (Emory Rollins School of Public Health) will present her team’s recent work to estimate PWID population size as well as follow-up on work to improve the health of PWID in the pandemic era.
About the Speaker:
Heather Bradley, PhD is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health. She is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose main research interests include surveillance methodology, racial disparities in HIV and hepatitis C infections, and the intersection of infectious diseases with the U.S. opioid epidemic. During the past few years, her research has focused largely on racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes. She previously served on the faculty at Georgia State University School of Public Health. Prior to that appointment, Dr. Bradley spent eight years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in positions ranging from Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer to Associate Chief for Science in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.