Jesse Yedinak (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Epidemiology and the Assistant Dean of Education at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research is focused on applied epidemiology, using a community-engaged approach to research and policy impact by working collaboratively with community-based and state agency partners. She focuses on the implementation of harm reduction and overdose research and how they intersect with health & data literacy and plain language communication.