Our mission is to use research to inform policy, reform structural health inequities, and improve public health outcomes.
Our Goals:
- 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
On the blog
2024 Harm Reduction Policy Rally day at the PA State Capital
Representative Jim Struzzi (R, Indiana) vowed to keep working to get this session’s bill HB1245 passed by the PA legislature. PA Harm Reduction Network's impactful efforts on April 8th included twenty-five one-on-one educational meetings with legislators, distribution...
PA Legislative Update: Rally in Harrisburg
Photo Credit: Tiffany Atlas I’ll view the solar eclipse later today from a different vantage: the steps outside the PA State Capital in Harrisburg. April 8, 2024, is a “Rally & Legislative Day” for Syringe Service Program Legalization and Health Policy Network...
“Enabling” People to Stay Alive
I wrote this Letter to the Editor in LNP, Lancaster’s daily newspaper, about the misconception that harm reduction “enables” people to further their addiction, and referred to my January 2022 testimony in Harrisburg. Please advocate for the "Expanding Syringe Service...