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Dr. Shikhar Shrestha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. His work focuses on the opioid crisis, prenatal opioid exposure, overdose prevention, and harm reduction strategies. He employs Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to study treatment accessibility and spatial epidemiology. Dr. Shrestha holds a PhD from the University of New Mexico (2019), where his dissertation explored healthcare utilization in infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.
His research emphasizes the intersection of substance use treatment accessibility and spatial equity, with recent publications addressing opioid overdose forecasting, GIS-based policy interventions, and syndemics research. Teaching activities include courses on GIS/Spatial Epidemiology, SAS programming, and Python for health informatics.
Key research areas include opioid-related fatal overdose patterns, maternal-infant health outcomes, and community-level interventions. His work bridges epidemiological analysis with actionable public health strategies, particularly in marginalized populations.
