Ms. Erin Gibson joined Tufts CTSI as executive director in January 2024. She previously worked at Boston Medical Center as the associate director of research operations for the Healing Communities Study, a $350M National Institutes of Health study aiming to reduce opioid overdose deaths in 67 communities in four states. Prior to that role, Ms. Gibson was a program manager at Boston Children’s Hospital for the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) and the Center for Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Research (CeASAR).

Ms. Gibson has extensive team leadership experience, having managed research operations for a large, multidisciplinary staff and affiliated academic, community, and government partners, while collaborating with institutions across several states. Her research experience and publications span projects supported by NIH and private and foundational grants in the areas of maternal and child health, women’s sexual health, and substance use addiction treatment and overdose prevention. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.