Our Team

  • Heather Kuiper DrPH

    Public health researcher and practitioner who fosters multi-disciplinary connections for health, equity, community, and environmental justice, in the US and internationally. She catalyzes and leads innovative inquiry and service, including the world’s first health impact assessment of coal trains. Her award-winning doctoral work at UC Berkeley produced the first statewide study of Local Health Department engagement with land use and transportation development and, pursuant to her MPH at Johns Hopkins University, she co-founded an organization that, with local partnership, provided some of the first public health services to internally displaced populations in Myanmar. She brings this expertise to the intersection of public health and psychedelics with the imperative to do so in a respectful and reparative way.

  • Chris Alley PhD

    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.

  • Katie Galloway PhD

    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.