Yarelix Estrada, MSPH

​​Yarelix Estrada, MSPH (she/her), is a first-generation Central American, drug policy and harm reduction researcher, advocate, and community outreach worker. Yarelix works as a City Research Scientist with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducting community-based substance use harm reduction outreach and research.

Her work is currently largely focused on implementation of the first higher-technology drug checking research study in New York City with local syringe service programs and two overdose prevention centers.

Yarelix is passionate about supporting people throughout the full continuum of drug use, from use for pleasure and healing to overdose prevention. She is the director of the New York City Psychedelic Society, is on the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Recovery Alliance, the Board of Directors for the Source Research Foundation, on the Advisory Board of the psychedelic media group Psymposia and is an organizer with the Urban Survivors Union and the Alliance for Collaborative Drug Checking.

She received her Master of Science in Public Health in Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Yarelix loves drugs, traveling, weightlifting, her plants and fighting people at hardcore show mosh pits.