Community Health Coordinator Academic Health Department Coordinator
Chickahominy Health District
Ashland, Virginia
Ms. Swafford graduated from the University of Virginia in 2007 where she studied Cognitive Science and English Literature. After graduating, she moved to England to work in a behavioral research lab. Shortly after, she started her Master’s in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2010. She continued helping with behavioral research there until 2013, when she moved back to the Richmond area. She worked in a developmental psychology lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) while enrolling in science classes. Inspired by one of the classes she took, Biology of Drugs, she became a research assistant at a lab in VCU's Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, which examined the effects of different synthetic cannabinoids on mice. In 2020, she began volunteering with the Medical Reserve Corps to help staff COVID-19 testing sites. In January 2021, she started working with the Chickahominy Health District as Health Educator and later as Data Manager and Scheduling Lead with their COVID Response Team. In 2024, she became more involved with the health district’s harm reduction efforts as their Community Health Coordinator.
C13 - Naloxone by Mail Program for Overdose Prevention
Monday, April 27, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MDT