Our Team

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Fatimah Loren Dreier, MA, MBA

Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education

Executive Director, the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI)

Vice President, Health Resources in Action (HRiA)

Fatimah Loren Dreier (she/her) is a nationally recognized expert in health equity, preventative public health strategies to address gun violence, and trauma-informed care delivery. Fatimah serves as Vice President of HRiA, a Boston-based public health institute. In addition, she serves as the inaugural Executive Director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education and Executive Director of the HAVI. The HAVI is a healthcare organization that has developed and scaled a model of care, called hospital-based violence intervention programs, to treat violently injured patients. The HAVI has a presence in 85 markets in the United States.

Fatimah previously served as Deputy Executive Director of Equal Justice USA (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 and the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at Yale School of Management.

Fatimah’s work and thought leadership has appeared in numerous media outlets including CNN, theWashington Post, NPR, TIME, the New York Times, Health Affairs, Politico, AP, and more. Her work has also appeared in Nature, the Journal of Adolescent Health, the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, the American Journal of Public Health and more. She is a psychotherapist by training and holds an MBA from Yale School of Management.