Pritika is a former resident senior fellow for Integrated Harm Reduction Policy at R Street Institute. In this role, she conducted original research and outreach efforts to advance integrated harm reduction public policy.
Prikita has experience with harm reduction from program, policy, and research perspectives gained from her career, which spans two decades and includes positions in multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and World Bank, integrated health systems research, and a policy organization.
Pritika has conducted doctoral and post-doctoral work on the role of social capital, social networks, and social norms in harm reduction (in the context of substance-use disorders including alcohol and tobacco), as well as on the use of clinical decision support tools in harm reduction outreach within primary/outpatient settings.
Pritika has her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an M.P.H. from Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an M.A. in Applied Social and Counseling Psychology from Delhi University, India.
