Benjamin Cocchiaro, MD, MPH
Adjunct Fellow
Family and Community Medicine
Public Health Interests
HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Social Determinants of Health, Substance Abuse
Current Public-Health Related Activities
Serving on the board of Prevention Point Philadelphia for the last five years, Ben Cocchiaro witnessed firsthand the mounting devastation of the overdose epidemic. Subsequently serving on the Mayor's Taskforce to Combat the Opioid Epidemic and within the Philadelphia Opiate Harm Reduction Collective, he continued working to stop the deaths while simultaneously trying to strike the roots of the epidemic.