Dionna King

Dionna King is the Program Manager for Vital Strategies Overdose Prevention Program. Since joining the OPP team, Dionna has established partnerships that have led to the development of innovative projects, such as harm reduction delivery units using medical vending machines, mobile outreach vehicle that will provide naloxone and other harm reduction supplies, and a toolkit for healthcare workers who support parenting and pregnant people with substance use disorders. Dionna has worked in the realms of public health and criminal justice reform policy and advocacy for several years. Before joining Vital Strategies, she worked at the Drug Policy Alliance where she developed the foundation of their race and mass criminalization campaign. 

Vital Strategies helps governments strengthen their public health systems to contend with the most important and difficult health challenges. Vital Strategies brings the best of public health thinking to design solutions that can scale rapidly and improve the lives of millions of people. The Overdose Prevention initiative is helping up to ten states implement solutions over three years to strengthen and scale up evidence-based, data-driven interventions to reduce risks of overdose and save lives.