abdullah shihipar

abdullah shihipar is a public health researcher and writer. He works in public health, primarily in the field of overdose prevention in the United States. His expertise in public health revolves around knowledge translation & public policy — connecting data & evidence based research to concrete policy outcomes. He works on crafting narratives and stories about America’s overdose crisis and communicating what solutions research tells us can be effective in stemming the tide of this epidemic.

As a writer, he has written for publications like The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, Slate, Bloomberg and CNN among others. He is a blogger for Psychology Today, writing a blog about the overdose crisis titled “Fighting a Crisis”.

From 2016-2018, he worked with the World Health Organization, UN Environment and Coalition for Clean Air and Climate on the BreatheLife Campaign — a campaign that aims to get cities around the world to improve their air quality to safe levels.

He has appeared on or been quoted in the BBC World Service, National Public Radio, ABC News, CBC News, CBC Radio, The World on Public Radio International, WWNO: New Orleans Public Radio, The Christian Science Monitor, Jezebel, Futuro Media’s In The Thick, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, The New York Times, Global News Toronto, among other outlets.

He currently leads Narrative Projects and Policy Impact initiatives at the People, Place & Health Collective (PPHC) at the Brown University School of Public Health.

He has a B.Sc in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Public Health from Brown University.

He can be reached at ashihipar[at]gmail[dot]com. For inquiries related to the PPHC; please email abdullah_shihipar[at]brown[dot]edu.

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