Dr. Lyu Azbel (they/them) is a public health researcher with 15 years' experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating health interventions for marginalized populations. Currently an assistant professor at Yale University, Dr. Azbel's research tackles the most stubborn impasses to translating medical technologies into new environments using ethnographic methods and implementation science. They have lectured and published widely on issues at the intersections of drugs, incarceration, LGBTQ health, and infectious diseases, including HIV and COVID-19. Inspired by the narcofeminist activist movement, they lead a Berlin-based group focused on re-thinking drug use and pleasure within queer communities (@TD4P_Berlin). They have worked in a range of global health settings and are fluent in seven languages.