Catherine Ahern Email & Phone Number

Providence, RI, US

Community First Responder Program

- Co-author literature review manuscript on the topic of safer smoking in the field of harm reduction with a team of three researchers; submitted for publication.-Develop other harm reduction deliverables as needed.

-Design trainings for university professionals around grant management via live and virtual events, interactive e-modules, edited tutorial videos, best practice guides, and web content.-Build community as co-chair of the Sponsored Programs DEI committee and as a steering committee member for the BU Community of Practice for Professional Development.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Coordination of data, special projects, and activities for New England’s largest syringe exchange and overdose prevention program.
• Provide individual case management and support to clients through risk reduction counseling, HIV/STI testing, medical and treatment systems navigation, drug checking services, sex worker safety, access to housing and.
• Management, reporting, analysis and application of program-level data for grants, state- and city-level stakeholder interests, and evidence-based program design.
• Guide the implementation of innovative drug user health strategies, such as drug checking and safer smoking initiatives, with a racial and gender equity lens.
• Facilitate interagency collaboration around infectious disease testing and treatment, drug checking policy and programming, and mobile primary care services.
• Distribute a local monthly report of instances of violence against sex workers via virtual and in-person outreach to serve as an alert system for the sex worker community.

Cell to Society Lab

Intern for the Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) program within the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services- Supported the coordination of the Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) Program to oversee programs that provide drug user health and harm reduction services statewide, overdose education training, and naloxone.

Boston, MA

Supervised group of four tutors and led a professional development workshop.

Monroe, NY

Master'S Degree, Social Work

Macro social work, mental health concentration

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi, General Honors Program, Psychology Honors Program. Active Minds; President and Secretary, Psychology.