Excited to share a paper out today on syringe service program staff experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic! Read: rdcu.be/cRMuO
Angela Bazzi Raagini Jawa MD MPH Ellen Childs, Ph.D. Grayken Center for Addiction Alex Walley, MD, MSc Kim Sue, MD, PhD Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW National Harm Reduction Coalition Maia Szalavitz

Grateful for incredible collaborators coauthors & friends Angela Bazzi Ellen Childs, Ph.D. married queer, uterus owner, harm reductionist Liz Whynott Tapestry and especially the staff of the syringe service programs for sharing their experiences and their time with us!

New Boston University School of Public Health student-led review paper by Tim Shannon Ogden Melissa Davoust Alex Kral Sean Cahill explores what's needed to implement and sustain safe consumption sites: rdcu.be/cQ3XR

New paper on innovative PrEP programming for people who inject drugs experiencing #homelessness emphasizes low-threshold approaches, taking #PrEP out to the community, and trusting, respectful relationships #HIV Angela Bazzi UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School Public Health UC San Diego Health link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our new paper 'Implementation and sustainability of safe consumption sites: a qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis' is available now: rdcu.be/cQ3XR

#HarmReduction #ImpSci #Overdose
Alex Kral Angela Bazzi Sean Cahill Shannon Ogden Melissa Davoust

Our paper 'Supervised Injection Facilities as #HarmReduction : A #SystematicReview ' is now out at American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM)! authors.elsevier.com/a/1dKt22gOwG4d…
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Angela Bazzi Melissa Davoust Shannon Ogden Sean Cahill Boston University School of Public Health Brown Public Health

Great to see this article in print, led by my colleagues
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Jennifer K. Brody and Angela Bazzi

More evidence that PrEP can be successfully provided to people who use drugs and people experiencing homelessness, with sufficient supports.

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read  ft.com/content/10d8f5… via @financialtimes

AHOPE team working alongside our colleagues Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program in the Boston Hope shelter caring for COVID+ homeless patients.

Harm reduction is essential work - and I am proud of these HR warriors for going above and beyond the call of duty for our people.

My paper on #PrEP knowledge + interest among PWID with Angela Bazzi Ellen Childs, Ph.D. & others @HealthyBrown Boston University School of Public Health Providence/Boston CFAR is especially relevant in light of new draft #USPSTF guidelines that now explicitly include PWID for whom PrEP should be recommended liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ap…

Peter Piot discusses two books that offer important lessons from the #Ebola epidemic in West Africa ow.ly/IbNH304E8bH via @nature

Heroin, 'the scarring of the next generation' CNN cnn.it/2d0QBbP

Amazing ideas from the #opioidhack hack-a-thon bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/09/… via The Boston Globe

This pill prevents HIV. Why don’t more people take it? #GettingToZero #PrEP bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/09/… via The Boston Globe

#AIDS2016 research: #drug enforcement practices differ by gender? #HIV prevention case for diversifying #policing

My latest column: A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors nytimes.com/2016/06/26/bus…

The Reporting on Prince’s Death Reveals That We Have No Idea What “Addiction” Really Means: slate.com/articles/healt…

Syndemics and HIV in America theatlantic.com/health/archive…