Bright Spark

  In this episode we feature Michael Gilbert-  a public health technologist with specializations in epidemiology, health informatics, and harm reduction. Michael’s past work in these fields includes design and implementation of public health informatics tools, research on the successes and challenges in community-based distribution of naloxone, and the development of technologies to support the […]

In this episode we interview Pauli Gray, a long time harm reductionist in San Francisco. Pauli is currently the Hepatitis C Program Manager for syringe access services for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and we asked him to speak to us about low barrier Hepatitis C services.

In this episode we present a monolog from Sam Junge, a volunteer, inactive drug user, and harm reduction worker at the Portland People's Outreach Project.

In this episode we interview Erin Haas, a long time volunteer and advocate for harm reduction services and drug users. For the last few years Erin has been the assistant director in the office of Overdose Prevention at the Maryland Department of Health. We asked Erin to talk to us about bringing harm reduction into government work. Erin Haas would like to add that the fentanyl test strip study mentioned in this episode was called FORECAST and its authors were Susan Sherman and Traci Green. She also said, "I also don't want to give the impression that I'm taking ownership or credit for the outreach work in Baltimore City." Got it!

In this episode we interview Marilou Gagnon, a nurse based out of Canada. Marilou is a professor of nursing, a researcher, a writer, and an activist and she was the spokesperson for the group Overdose Prevention Ottawa's overdose prevention site that ran from August to November of 2017 . Find out more about Marilou at https://marilougagnon.com