MSPH

Yarelix Estrada, MSPH (she/her), is a first-generation Central American, drug policy and harm reduction researcher, advocate, and community outreach worker. Yarelix’s works as a City Research Scientist with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducting community-based substance use harm reduction outreach and research. Yarelix’s work is currently largely focused on implementation of the first higher-technology drug checking research study in New York City with local syringe service programs and two overdose prevention centers. Yarelix received her Master of Science in Public Health in Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.