Beth Meyerson

Beth E. Meyerson

Professor of Family and Community Medicine; Director of the Harm Reduction Research Lab; and Director of Policy, Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction, University of Arizona
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About Beth

Meyerson has over two decades of public health practice and research experience, typified by roles as president of a policy research consultancy focused on HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, with an international portfolio (1998-2011), and as the state AIDS/STD Director for Missouri (1994-1998). Meyerson's research is interdisciplinary, combining policy and organizational science with behavioral and clinical outcomes research focused on sexual health and harm reduction. Meyerson often engages policymakers to translate research for decision-making (mostly state legislators in Indiana and Arizona).

In the News

Opinion: "Art of the Small," Beth E. Meyerson, TEDx Indiana University, November 13, 2015.

Publications

"I Could Take the Judgment If You Could Just Provide the Service: Non-Prescription Syringe Purchase Experience at Arizona Pharmacies, 2018" (with Carrie A. Lawrence, Summer Dawn Cope, Steven Levin, Christopher Thomas, Lori Ann Eldridge, Haley B. Coles, Nina Vadiei, and Amy Kennedy). BMC Harm Reduction Journal 16, no. 57 (2019): 1-9.

Documents the syringe purchase experiences of people who inject drugs in Arizona. Informs policy about access issues throughout the state.