Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH

Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Salisbury-Afshar is board certified in family medicine, preventive medicine/public health, and addiction medicine, and her expertise lies at the intersection of these fields. Her work has focused on expanding access to evidence-based substance use disorder treatment and harm reduction services. She is currently the Program Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency and core faculty for the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at UW-Madison. She is also the Medical Director of Harm Reduction Services for the Wisconsin Department of Public Health.

Dr. Salisbury-Afshar has over 12 years of experience working in federally qualified health centers in Baltimore, Chicago, and Madison. She previously served as Medical Director of Heartland Alliance Health (healthcare for the homeless provider in Chicago) and successfully developed and expanded outpatient addiction treatment services while in this role. She has expertise in behavioral health-primary care integration and has provided consultation to states and health systems related to successful addiction treatment integration efforts in primary care settings.

Past public health roles include serving as Medical Director of Behavioral Health Systems Baltimore, Medical Director of Behavioral Health at the Chicago Department of Public Health, and Director of the Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions at the American Institutes for Research. In each of these roles, she developed strategy and led program implementation efforts related to the overdose crisis with a focus on substance use disorder treatment and harm reduction service expansion.

Dr. Salisbury-Afshar received her Undergraduate Degree from the University of Illinois, her Medical Degree from Rush University Medical College, and her Master’s in Public Health from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.