Alana Vivolo-Kantor, PhD, MPH, is the Associate Director for Science (ADS) in the Division of Overdose Prevention (DOP) at CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. As the ADS, she provides leadership, planning, and guidance to division management and staff on scientific policy, research methodology, and priorities for DOP overdose prevention research activities. She also oversees CDC’s Cannabis Strategy and Coordination Unit. Previously, she was a senior health scientist and team lead for the Overdose Morbidity Team in the Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch in DOP. In this role, she managed the nonfatal overdose surveillance data collected from health departments – the Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE) system – funded by CDC’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) cooperative agreement.