2022 Speakers
Keynote speakers
Journalist, Author, Photographer
Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration
Christopher Jones, PharmD, DrPH, MPH
CAPT, US Public Health Service Acting Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
PRESENTERS & MODERATORS
Senior Program Officer for Non-Infectious Disease Programs
CDC Foundation
Executive Director, National Harm Reduction Coalition
Director, Cypress Resilience Project
Navigator Program Director, California Bridge
Jeffrey Cooper
CA Bridge
Community Health Policy Coordinator, Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance
Senior Scientist, Injury Prevention Research Center Innovation Fellow, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Operations Coordinator, PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact
Outreach Peer, Streetworks Safe Horizon
Legislative Director, National Association of Attorneys General
Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Medical Director, Highland General Hospital SUD Treatment Program, CA Bridge Program
Drug Intelligence Officer and Demand Reduction Coordinator, Overdose Response Strategy, Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
Professor, Comprehensive Pain Treatment and Center Director; SOM - Neurosurgery, Project ECHO, The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University
VA National Mental Health Director for Substance Use Disorders, Office of Mental health and Suicide Prevention at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Program Manager, PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact
Sr. Vice President, Public Health Institute; Director, Center for Health Leadership and Practice and National Overdose Prevention Network
VA National Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) Coordinator
US Department of Veterans Affairs
President and CEO, Public Health Institute
National Conference Manager, National Harm Reduction Coalition
Overdose Preparedness and Response Team Lead and Opioid Rapid Response Program Director, CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Overdose Prevention
Chief Operating Officer, Faces & Voices of Recovery
Elizabeth Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Lamar Sims
Capacity Building Manager, National Harm Reduction Coalition
Founder, Anka Consulting LLC
Health Officer and Public Health Director, Contra Costa County
Contra Costa Health Services
Addiction & Public Policy Initiative Project Director and Adjunct Professor of Law, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health
Cornelius Wiggins
Youth Community Engagement Coordinator, The Center
