Community-Based Health Expert Network

The Community-Based Health Experts represent populations at risk, rather than a location, per se. Some of these experts are scientists who study drug use, and others are people with experiences other than academia and represent populations we are interested in reaching for targeted messages.

NDEWS Community-Based Health Experts

Stakeholder Advisory Group
Name Affiliation
Kaitlyn Brown, PharmD, DABATNationwideClinical Managing Director, America’s Poison Centers
Robert Crecelius, PhDLas Cruces, NMBoard Member, El Caldito Soup Kitchen, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Levi Bolin, PhDNationwideAssociate Director, Clinical Affairs, Millennium Health
Abeed Sarker, PhDAtlanta, GAAssociate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University
Caty SimonNationwideDirector of Narrative Development, National Survivors Union, Co-founder and Development Director, Whose Corner Is It Anyway
Susan ThauNationwidePublic Policy Consultant, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)
Ryan JacobsKentuckySurvivors Union of the Bluegrass
Alyssa Falise, PhD, MSPHNationwideResearch Associate with Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), part of the American College of Medical Toxicology
Lisa McElhaneyNationwideChief Operating Officer, National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI)

NDEWS is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to the University of Florida (MPI: Cottler (contact), Co-Is: Goldberger, Nixon, Striley), NYU Langone Health (MPI: Palamar), and Florida Atlantic University (Co-I: Barenholtz).