Grant T. Baldwin, PhD, MPH

Director, Division of Overdose Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Member, Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit Advisory Board
Atlanta, GA

Dr. Grant Baldwin is the Director of the Division of Overdose Prevention at CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. In this role, he is responsible for monitoring trends in the opioid epidemic and other emerging drug threats as well identifying and scaling up prevention activities to address the evolving drug crisis. This includes supporting local drug-free community coalitions too. Prior to this appointment in October 2019, Dr. Baldwin served as the Director of the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention for 11 years where he helped raise the profile of motor vehicle injury prevention, advanced work in older adult fall prevention and traumatic brain injury prevention, and established the initial CDC response to the prescription opioid overdose epidemic. As the scope, scale, and complexity of America’s drug overdose epidemic changed, the Division of Overdose Prevention was created to serve as a necessary and essential focal point to CDC’s more expansive and diversified work in the area. Dr. Baldwin has been at CDC for 25 years. Dr. Baldwin received his PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan. He received a MPH in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from Emory University, and is currently an affiliated professor at Emory University. Dr. Baldwin has given keynote addresses or provided remarks at over 125 state, national and international conferences and meetings, has authored or coauthored more than 65 peer-reviewed publications, and has received awards of excellence for his leadership and teaching.

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Presentation(s):

• Methamphetamine Use in the United States: Epidemiological Update and Implications for Prevention, Treatment, and Harm Reduction

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  1:00 PM – 2:15 PM ET

• Tribal Opioid Overdose Prevention Responses: COVID-19 and the Pivot to Telehealth

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  2:30 PM – 3:45 PM ET

• The New Age of Telehealth: What Is Working

  Wednesday, April 20, 2022
  4:30 PM – 5:45 PM ET

• Breaking Down Silos: Leveraging the Power of Federal Cross-Sector Collaboration in the Overdose Epidemic

  Thursday, April 21, 2022
  8:15 AM – 9:30 AM ET