Our mission is to use research to inform policy, reform structural health inequities, and improve public health outcomes.
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- Educate on health policy, substance use disorder, and drug policy topics.
- Provide recommendations to decision-makers, synthesizing and analyzing the available scientific literature.
- Initiate new research to fill gaps in the evidence.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman…”
Dr Martin Luther King, March 25, 1966
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My published column: Evidence-based Approach to Heat Dangers at Jail
Lancaster’s daily newspaper, LNP/Lancaster Online published my Op-Ed on July 23, 2025, a shorter version of my June 30th blog post on this site. See below for the full text with the hyperlinks to sources, not included in the LNP version. When the air conditioning at...
Heat Emergencies and Lancaster’s Jail
(A revised, shorter version of this essay was later published in LNP. See the Op-Ed in my next blog post.) At 9:15 AM, it was already uncomfortably warm in the meeting room in the Lancaster County (PA) jail, where the Prison Board held its June 26th meeting. The room,...
2024 Harm Reduction Policy Rally day at the PA State Capital
All photos by Tiffany Atlas