Suhanee Mitragotri is an undergraduate student at Harvard University studying Neuroscience with a Secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. She is also the Co-Founder of the Naloxone Education Initiative, a program that aims to expand opioid and naloxone education to youth. She has written extensively on topics related to the opioid crisis, harm reduction, and drug policy and has published articles in various journals and magazines, including The Lancet Regional Health Americas, Addiction, Health Affairs Forefront, The Boston Globe, and New Scientist.
Kevan Shah, MSc, MSM, is an MD Candidate at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He is the founder and executive director of End Overdose Together, which aims to train and equip individuals to prevent opioid overdose.
Dr. Avik Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and a med-peds trained primary care and addiction medicine physician at several shelter-based clinics through Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. His areas of clinical and research interest include innovative treatment models for opioid use disorder in marginalized populations, and interventions on social determinants of health, such as food insecurity. He has an additional interest in racism and health care, particularly its manifestations in medical education and training.
The opioid settlement funds provide a crucial opportunity to get increased state or municipal funding behind mail-based naloxone delivery. Through partnering with existing organizations that already have robust infrastructure in place and substantial experience in mail-based naloxone municipalities can scale efforts efficiently.