Medical Team
The mission of the Division of Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction’s Medical program is to improve healthcare for people who use substances in Philadelphia. The team provides clinical expertise in substance use disorder, harm reduction, and wound care within SUPHR, across City departments, and community organizations. They carry out capacity-building activities to support community organizations, hospitals, and City agencies to adopt evidence-based harm reduction clinical practices when engaging people who use substances. SUPHR’s medical team collaborates with and supports hospital-, community-, and government-based programs seeking to improve the care and well-being of people who use substances. The team convenes healthcare professionals and clinicians across Philadelphia to identify gaps in care, improve best practices, and identify emerging healthcare needs for people who use substances.
Want to learn more? Check out the team’s Trainings page, academic detailing campaigns, and health alert network bulletins, as well as CHART and Annual Reports the team has contributed to.
Meet the team
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Shelby Kehoe, MSS
MEDICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
Shelby (she/her) is the Program Manager for SUPHR’s Medical Program. She is responsible for providing strategic oversight and managing initiatives to improve care for people who use drugs in Philadelphia.
Before joining SUPHR, Shelby worked at the Camden Coalition, where she managed community engagement and advocacy programming focused on transforming healthcare and social services delivery for New Jersey’s Medicaid population. She began her career in youth mental health advocacy at Mental Health Partnerships in Philadelphia. Shelby graduated from Bryn Mawr College with an undergraduate degree in Sociology before receiving a Master of Social Service from Bryn Mawr's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.