Allie Hunter is the Director of Clearinghouse Services at HRiA.
In this role, Allie leads a team responsible for developing and distributing hundreds of health education materials for the Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearinghouse and other public health partners nationwide. In this role, Allie oversees operations, client partnerships, and program growth, while providing thought leadership on effective public health communication and systems.
Allie comes to HRiA as a nationally recognized leader in harm reduction, overdose response, and recovery who has spent her career advancing compassionate, innovative approaches to public health.
Allie is the co-founder of the Community Syringe Redemption Program (CSRP), a first-of-its-kind syringe buyback initiative that launched in Boston in 2020 and expanded to New York City in 2025. Her previous roles include Director of Strategic Community Programs at Emergent BioSolutions, where she supported efforts to expand access to naloxone, and Executive Director of the Police Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative (PAARI), where she led national efforts to build public health-public safety partnerships in response to the overdose crisis.
Allie’s work has been recognized with awards from AmeriCorps, the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, and the Institute for Nonprofit Practice, among others. Allie has authored and contributed to multiple toolkits, publications, reports, and conferences, sharing insights on harm reduction, overdose response, post-overdose outreach, and other community-driven public health strategies.
Allie holds a BA in Politics & International Relations from Ursinus College, an MA in International Development from Ohio University, and a Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.