Project Personnel Contact Information
Josiah “Jody” Rich, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Brown University
The Center for Health and Justice Transformation, Providence, RI
The COBRE on Opioids and Overdose
The Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals
(401) 793-4770
JRich@Lifespan.org
Justin Berk, MD, MPH, MBA
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown University
The COBRE on Opioids and Overdose
Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital
justin_berk@brown.edu
Research Assistants
Megan Martin, MA
The COBRE Center on Opioids and Overdose
mmartin17@lifespan.org
Evelyn Lai
Undergraduate, Brown University School of Public Health
evelyn_lai@brown.edu
Maria Diaz, MPH
Medical Student, George Washington University
maria_diaz@gwmail.gwu.edu
Cara Murphy, BA
Medical Student, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University
cara_e_murphy@brown.edu
Steering Committee Members
Sally Friedman, Legal Action Center
Lauranne Howard, Rhode Island Department of Corrections
Eliana Kaplowitz, Center for Health and Justice Transformation
Haley McKee, Rhode Island Substance Use Political Action Committee
Sarah Martino, Center for Health and Justice Transformation
Mavis Nimoh, Center for Health and Justice Transformation
Anna Steiner, Transitions Clinic Network
Ashley Truong, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jackie White Hughto, Brown University School of Public Health
Collaborators
Shannon Mace, National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Sara Whaley, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Brendan Saloner, John Hopkins School of Public Health
Shelly Weizman, O‘Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law