Ms. Eleanor (Erin) Artigiani has more than twenty years of experience managing epidemiological workgroups and early warning systems, conducting prevention program evaluations, and managing epidemiological workgroups, substance abuse research, and policy development. From 2014-2020, she provided day-to-day project management and coordination of efforts among National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) project staff and agencies which included coordinating the NDEWS Scientific Advisory Group and local epidemiologists and planning and facilitating NDEWS webinars. She has managed a number of epidemiological workgroups for Maryland and Washington, DC, most recently as a part of the SAMHSA funded Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) and currently manages a local evaluation of prevention efforts implemented as part of the Opioid Misuse Prevention Program (OMPP) and Block Grant (SABG) in western Maryland. Other Maryland initiatives she has supported include evaluating substance abuse and HIV prevention strategies launched by Bowie State University and school-based drug prevention efforts in Montgomery and other counties. Currently, Ms. Artigiani is leading the recruitment of new sites as part of the national expansion of the Emergency Department Drug Surveillance (EDDS) project and moderating the CESAResearch virtual community. Ms. Artigiani received her Master’s Degree in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology & Psychology from Wellesley College. She is now Deputy Director for Policy at the University of Maryland’s Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) where she has worked since 1997.