Deepika Baskar
About Deepika Baskar
Deepika is a public health researcher, grassroots organizer, and science communicator. Their work leverages epidemiological tools to generate evidence that informs community-centered harm reduction policy and practice, driving broader systems change efforts for and with women and girls, gender-expansive people, people who use drugs, overpoliced and overcriminalized populations, and communities denied equitable access to public health infrastructure. Their advocacy is situated within the U.S. and global health justice movements, and has involved collaboration with community-led and public interest research teams, hospital systems, policy laboratories, and legal services organizations working to build and strengthen pathways to health access and harm reduction service provision. They hold dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Psychology and Neuroscience from Wayne State University, and a Masters of Public Health from the Yale School of Public Health.