Dr. Susan Sherman is a behavioral scientist who conducts research on the structural determinants of drug use, HIV and overdose risk. She is Professor of Health, Behavior and Society at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Co-Lead of the Addiction and Overdose workgroup of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, and Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research Baltimore HIV Collaboratory. She leads several studies funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Baltimore and previously led several NIH-funded intervention studies in India, Pakistan and Thailand. Sherman serves on several Baltimore and Maryland commissions on syringe exchange programs and overdose prevention.