Our Growing Team
Heather Kuiper DrPH
Public health researcher, practitioner, and community leader who fosters multi-disciplinary connections for health, equity, community, and environmental justice in the US and internationally. As a catalyst, she contributed to the world’s first health impact assessment of coal trains, her award-winning doctoral work generated the first statewide study of Local Health Department engagement with land use and transportation development, and she co-founded an organization that, with local partners, provided the first public health services to internally displaced populations in Myanmar. As Director of CPPH, she brings the imperative to unite public health and psychedelics in a reparative way. She holds a DrPH from UC Berkeley and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
Katie Galloway PhD
Award-winning and critically acclaimed filmmaker, investigative reporter, educator, and strategic impact producer with a deep commitment to social justice and decades of work focused on structural and systemic change. An Oakland native, she brings extensive experience in the realms of transformative storytelling, psychedelics, and public health advocacy, where she is committed to supporting this emerging field for the public good. Galloway holds a PhD in Politics from UC Berkeley, with emphases in Political Behavior and Public Law, and an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on Documentary Filmmaking.
Missi Wooldridge MPH
Nightlife harm reduction pioneer and public health practitioner of nearly 20 years. As former Executive Director of DanceSafe, she led the organization through its transformational growth period. Through her consultancy, Healthy Nightlife, LLC, she co-founded Project #OpenTalk, a partnership between Insomniac Events, Drug Policy Alliance, and Zendo Project that successfully drug education, sexual health, peer support, and back-of-house drug checking into some of the largest EDM festivals in the world. She co-authored seminal research linking drug checking to behavioral intention, spoken at numerous conferences, and served on many international and domestic advisory bodies including appointed Commissioner on Denver Drug Strategy Commission. She is Adjunct Professor & SME in SUNY Potsdam’s M.S. in Public Health program and mentor for New York State Public Health Corps.
In Fall 2025, she begins her DrPH at Rollins School of Public Health, dedicating her doctoral work to advancing the emerging field of psychedelic public health.
Check back soon to meet our amazing Advisory Board!
Chris Alley PhD
Medical anthropologist at the NYU School of Global Public Health. He also serves as a consultant to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). He holds a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Alley’s research examines the social, cultural, and political dimensions of clinical biomedical knowledge production and intervention. He has conducted extended ethnographic fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His current research investigates the re-emergence of psychedelic science within western biomedicine, and its implications for public health policy and practice.