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Nabarun Dasgupta, MPH

Nabarun Dasgupta is a quantitative epidemiologist who studies the medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids and heroin. He has worked with and consults for diverse groups in public health involved in reducing the adverse consequences of opioid use, including the World Health Organization, non-profit organizations, state and local health departments, and the pharmaceutical industry. Nabarun is also involved in studies measuring the prevalence of painful conditions among special populations. He has conducted fieldwork with prescription opioid abusing populations and has been a researcher for the RADARS(r) System since 2003.

Nabarun earned his undergraduate degree in molecular biology from Princeton University and holds a master of public health degree from Yale. He is currently a graduate student in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, specializing in
pharmacoepidemiology, opioid overdose and definitional aspects of diagnosing substance use disorders.