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
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Declining to Participate in POMAAT’s Bad Faith 2026 “Listening Session”
Gail announced that she would stand with colleagues who declined to participate in the Aug. 6, 2026 Opioid Trust’s “Listening Session,” inviting Trustees to our coalition press conference instead.I made my first remarks off the cuff. I told the Pennsylvania Opioid...
Pa’s powerful opioid settlement board heads into a 4th year of rebuffing public engagement
Spoiler alert:This year I registered again to speak to this statewide policy-setting group: The Pennsylvania Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Trust (POMAAT, or the “Trust”), established in May of 2022 and governed by a 13-member Board of Trustees. Some of my...
PA Prison Society Lancaster County Informational Webinar
Shine a Light Behind Bars: PA Prison Society- Lancaster County Informational Webinar: 7 PM, April 13, 2026 Volunteers are needed throughout the mid-state of PA, including Lancaster.! We’re hosting this webinar to help advance the health, safety, and dignity of...