Associate Director, Addiction and Public Policy Initiative, and Adjunct Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center, O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, District of Columbia
Shelly Weizman, JD is the Associate Director of the Addiction and Public Policy Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center where she works on a project 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 and also facilitates the Recovery Policy Collaborative, a network of experts in 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 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 also a person in long-term recovery from a substance use disorder, celebrating more than 24 years of recovery.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Monday, April 18, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM ET