Jennifer Rochussen Havens received her MPH and PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Havens has been on faculty in the Department of Behavioral Science and Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine since 2004 and is a nationally recognized expert in rural health disparities. Dr. Havens and colleagues published some of the earliest scholarly work suggesting that rural PWUD were injecting prescription opioids, putting them at increased risk for HIV and hepatitis C and has contributed to more than 80 manuscripts related to the epidemic. Dr. Havens has been continuously funded by NIH since 2008 when she established a cohort of rural people who use prescription opioids, the results of which have provided vital information to our national response to the opioid crisis. In addition to this ongoing longitudinal study, Dr. Havens is conducting a NIDA-funded treatment trial to eliminate the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from a rural community adversely impacted by the opioid/HCV syndemic.