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About The Speaker

Tanagra Melgarejo has 20+ years of experience in the fields of organizational/program development, evaluation, technical assistance, community organizing, and direct service with underserved/over-surveilled/stigmatized folks, particularly within Latinx communities. She currently works as the National Learning and Engagement Strategist for the National Harm Reduction Coalition.

Her commitment and passion for harm reduction started out in Holyoke, Massachusetts in the1990’s while she worked as Popular Education Director for a local HIV prevention program. Before moving to Oakland, she was working in Puerto Rico with women who are survivors of gender-based violence, focusing her work and activism around economic/human rights of women. She holds an MSW from the University of Puerto Rico and is a lecturer for social work students at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus and the Ana G. Méndez University, Gurabo campus.

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Tanagra M. Melgarejo Pulido, MSW, reports that she has no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients during the past 24 months. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Deepak Prabhakar, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc., Louis Marino, MD, Ehsan Syed, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Laura Webb, RN-BC, MSN, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Octavia Coit, MN, Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd,  and Jennifer Tornabene.