Chelsea Boyd
Resident Research Fellow, Harm Reduction
About Chelsea
Chelsea Boyd is a research fellow in R Street’s Integrated Harm Reduction policy area. Her research and writing focuses on decreasing harmful health outcomes for people who engage in potentially risky behaviors, such as smoking and drug use. She also applies harm reduction principles to topics including sexual health, mental health, and infectious disease.
Prior to joining R Street, Chelsea worked for the peer review department at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Chelsea’s public health experience also includes serving as a research assistant at the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research and a laboratory coordinator at Colorado State University’s Arthropod-borne Infectious Diseases Laboratory.
Chelsea holds a master’s degree in epidemiology from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary liberal arts with minors in economics and mathematics from Colorado State University. She is currently pursuing her DrPH in epidemiology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
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