Professor Beletsky is a social epidemiology scholar with a 20-year track record of interdisciplinary research. His work reflects a career-long focus on social determinants of health among people who use drugs. He has conducted numerous studies to examine the role of policing in shaping HIV and other health risk, and developed the SHIELD intervention model. His current work continues to explore police practices’ and drug policies’ health effects and pathways by which racial disparities in the criminal legal system result in health disparities. He directs the Action Lab at Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law, which has extensive experience in mounting and testing police training interventions and translating public health evidence into policy and legal action. He continues to innovate the SHIELD model to include the behavioral health workforce in delivery of this structural overdose and HIV prevention intervention in Kentucky.