Chelsea Boyd

Chelsea Boyd is a resident research fellow of harm reduction with the R Street Institute. Her research and writing focuses on decreasing harmful health outcomes for people who engage in high-risk behavior, such as smoking and recreational drug use.

Prior to joining R Street, Chelsea worked for the peer review department at The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).  Chelsea’s public health experience also includes serving as a research assistant at the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research and a laboratory coordinator at Colorado State University’s Arthropod-borne Infectious Diseases Laboratory.

Chelsea holds an M.S. in epidemiology from the George Washington University and a B.A. in interdisciplinary liberal arts with minors in economics and mathematics from Colorado State University.