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Fatimah Loren Dreier
Executive Director

Fatimah Loren Dreier serves as the Executive Director of the HAVI, Executive Director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education, and Vice President of Health Resources in Action (HRiA), the HAVI's fiscal sponsor organization. She is a Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Health Equity Leadership at Yale School of Management.

The HAVI is a national network of hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) serving violently injured patients by addressing the social determinants of health. Through innovative community-hospital partnerships in over 85 cities in the U.S. and abroad, the HAVI has expanded health-based, trauma-informed care by cultivating a powerful national alliance of ER doctors, trauma surgeons, researchers, violence prevention professionals, and communities impacted by violence. The HAVI strives to support a system that centers racial equity, preventive public health strategies, and trauma-informed care delivery. 

Prior to joining the HAVI, Fatimah was Deputy Executive Director of EJUSA, a national criminal justice reform organization where she led an award-winning program on community trauma. Fatimah has received numerous honors and distinctions, including the 2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders Fellowship. She received her MBA from Yale University and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Her work at the HAVI has been featured in The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, The New York Times, CNN, NBC News, Health Affairs, and The Trace.

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