Director of Strategic Health and Opioid Initiatives
North Carolina Association of County Commissioners
Raleigh, NC
Nidhi Sachdeva, MPH (she/her) is a thoughtful leader and passionate public health professional committed to creating healthy, safe, and equitable communities. She is a systems-thinker who makes connections between complex ideas and with diverse people to create a culture of curiosity and care. Ms. Sachdeva serves as the Director of Strategic Health and Opioid Initiatives with the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) where she assists counties in planning for and utilizing national opioid settlement funds, managing strategic health initiatives, and maximizing resources through outreach, education, and collaboration.
Ms. Sachdeva has worked in public health in various capacities and on multiple levels within government (local and state) and research universities. Prior to joining NCACC, Ms. Sachdeva was a Senior Research Program Leader with the Duke University Opioid Collaboratory where she built and lead a portfolio of prevention research, implementation science, and evaluation projects focused in communities and within health systems. She also has worked with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch where she led strategic planning, partnership development, policy and program implementation, and local capacity building for state-wide injury and violence prevention efforts with a focus on the prevention of drug poisoning and overdose death. Ms. Sachdeva also served as a Program Manager at the University of North Carolina’s Injury Prevention Research Center where she coordinated several poisoning prevention policy and program evaluation studies and a Senior Health Educator/Healthy Carolinians Coordinator at the Orange County Health Department.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM