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Allie Hunter, a director at Emergent BioSolutions, shares her motivation for entering community health, driven by her family's experience with addiction. Her mission is to equip others with support tools that she wished were available to her. Despite her professional success, she felt unprepared during her sister's addiction struggles.
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Key takeaways
Allie Hunter's work is motivated by personal experience with addiction in her family.
She aims to provide others with support tools she wished she had.
Hunter felt helpless during her sister's addiction struggles despite her position.
Allie Hunter, Director, Community Health Solutions, shares her personal experiences with addiction in her family, and how she got into this work because she wants to help others who are struggling. Allie says that as a family member, she felt helpless and didn't know how to help her sister after ten overdoses. She didn't have the tools or knowledge to understand addiction, and she felt like she was failing her sister.
As a family member, she felt helpless and didn't know how to help her sister after ten overdoses.
— Allie Hunter, Director, Community Health Solutions
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