Speaker Profile
Liz Chiarello is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University who conducts research at the intersection of healthcare and law. Her work centers on how cultural forces such as law, politics, and organizational policy influence decision-making in healthcare and the criminal-legal system, particularly regarding reproductive justice and opioids. Dr. Chiarello’s current project centers on the U.S. overdose crisis, and her book Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis examines how the fields of healthcare and criminal justice have used shared surveillance technology to address the crisis and how doing so has changed professional work and undermined patient care.
Dr. Chiarello has been a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, and her research is supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Her work has appeared in sociology and socio-legal journals as well as popular media including op-eds, and podcasts. She is a frequent public commentator on opioid-related topics and has been featured in USA Today, Bloomberg News, and St. Louis on the Air.
