Project Director, Addiction & Public Policy Initiative and Adjunct Professor of Law
O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, District of Columbia
Shelly Weizman, JD is a human rights lawyer whose areas of interest include advancing public policy related to addiction, mental health, and disabilities. She serves as the Project Director of the Addiction and Public Policy Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University where she works on a portfolio focused on the overdose epidemic and how the law can promote access to treatment and support recovery. Ms. Weizman is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, where she introduced and teaches a course on Addiction & Mental Health Law and Policy. She is on the leadership team that developed a new Master of Science in Addiction Policy & Practice at Georgetown's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. She facilitates the Recovery Policy Collaborative, a network of experts in government, health, human rights, and policy who have lived experience with addiction and serves on the Board of Directors of Faces and Voices of Recovery. Ms. Weizman previously served as the Assistant Secretary for Mental Hygiene in the Office of the Governor of New York where she oversaw policy and operations related to addiction, mental health and disabilities. She also served as Policy Director for Managed Care at the New York State Office of Mental Health and began her legal career as a civil rights attorney at MFY Legal Services, a not-for-profit legal services organization in New York City. She is a person in long-term recovery from addiction, celebrating more than 24 years of recovery.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM