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Nabarun Dasgupta, MPH, Scientific Advisor
Nabarun Dasgupta, MPH is a quantitative epidemiologist who studies the use and nonmedical use of prescription opioid pain relievers and heroin. He has worked with and for diverse groups on reducing the adverse consequences of opioid use, including at the World Health Organization, non-profit organizations, local health departments, and the pharmaceutical industry. He has been a researcher for a nationwide surveillance system for prescription drug misuse, abuse and diversion since 2004. Nabarun helped create Project Lazarus, an overdose prevention project in rural North Carolina.
Nabarun did his undergraduate at Princeton University in molecular biology and received a master of public health degree from Yale University in the epidemiology of microbial diseases. He is currently a graduate student in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill where his dissertation work is on definitional aspects of substance use disorders and developing causal models for remission from alcohol and drug dependence.