Boston Medical Center (BMC) Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance (TTA)

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Samantha Blakemore

Samantha Blakemore, MPH (she/her)

Research Program Manager

Sam is the research program manager for Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance. She manages the design, implementation, and dissemination of multiple clinical research studies and program evaluations including supporting the NIH HEALing Communities Study. She is also responsible for the grant activities of the program through all stages of the award process, maintaining budgets, expenses, contracts, and reporting. Prior to joining the Grayken TTA team, Sam worked as a project manager for global health research in low resource settings in Africa and South Asia. Sam earned her Master of Public Health (MPH), with a focus in epidemiology/biostatistics and human rights/social justice, from Boston University.

Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.

Funding for Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is provided by:

Massachusetts Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS)
GE Foundation
Opioid Response Network

The content on this site and the content presented by Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is intended solely to inform and educate healthcare and social service professionals, and shall not be used for medical advice and is not a substitute for the advice or treatment of a qualified medical professional. The hospital, the program, and the contributors are not acting as health care providers or professional consultants on behalf of any specific patient and disclaim establishing a provider-patient relationship with any specific patient.


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