HaRRT Center at CPA

This year some of our HaRRT members were honored to present a symposium at the 2025 Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Conference! We shared our ongoing work with colleagues from all over the US, highlighting how we center lived experience, promote equity, and strengthen the impact of harm reduction interventions by using community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods to advance substance use treatment for minoritized groups. Thanks so much to those who were able to attend, it was a great conference! 

Photos from the Research Society on Alcoholism’s 41st Annual scientific conference

We’re still smiling after spending quality time with incoming RSA president, Dr. Mary Larimer, and collaborator and FSU’s MacKenzie Professor in Health Disparities Research, Dr. John Lowe, at the Research Society on Alcoholism’s 41st Annual scientific conference!

Dancing with Dr. Mary Larimer

Selfie with the true JLo, Dr. John Lowe

Photos from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2018

Susan finally meets 6-year-long e-collaborator, Dr. Kolawole Okuyemi, in person to discuss his groundbreaking work with smokers experiencing homelessness and his thoughts on meeting people where they are at.

The Surgeon General, VADM Jerome Adams, MD, MPH closes his keynote address at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) by saying that we need to be using vaping to support harm reduction for smokers who can’t quit, and we need to keep ecigarettes out of the hands of children. “We need to do both.” Thank you for inspiring us, Dr. Adams!

Dr. Dorothy Hatsukami consults with the HaRRT Center to improve our harm reduction treatment for smoking. Fun fact: Dr. Dorothy Hatsukami is the aunt of one of our Research Coordinators, Alyssa!