Communications Team

The Division of Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction Communications program aims to produce respectful and informative messages, allowing residents to learn about and locate available resources.

The Communications team creates targeted materials to promote messages about resources for safer drug use, like naloxone and fentanyl test strips, and treatment options, like buprenorphine (also known as Suboxone), to those who use drugs, their loved ones, and the general population. The program supports other teams in SUPHR and community partners by creating pamphlets, flyers, and videos to ensure cohesive, creative, inclusive, and stigma-free messaging. The team’s primary focus is to fill gaps in drug use knowledge by utilizing innovative ads and distribution methods to appropriately communicate with communities and populations most at risk of overdose. This means performing equitable data analysis, engaging with people who use drugs, expanding our geographic reach, and accepting that drug use is not uniform.  

Over the last few years, the program has produced two city-wide multi-media campaigns, Bupe Works and Bring Home Naloxone, as well as multiple grass-roots initiatives, such as a mailed fentanyl awareness and test strips postcard, In Philly, We Keep Each Other Safe, and a fentanyl test strip demonstration pamphlet.

Visit our campaigns page to see more.

Meet the team

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    Fatimah Maiga, MPH

    COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

    fatimah.maiga@phila.gov

    Fatimah (she/her) joined SUPHR in 2019 as an Urban Health Policy Fellow. As a fellow, she contributed to a multitude of novel programs and offered administrative assistance as the team rapidly expanded into a division. Following her fellowship, Fatimah transitioned to the communications team where she assisted in campaign development and implementation, surveying, and social media engagement. In her role as the communications manager, Fatimah leads the communications team’s core functions, while crafting a portfolio of creative strategies to reach underserved populations. Fatimah graduated from Boston University with a BS in Health Science and Yale University with a Master of Public Health.

  • Zia Kelly

    COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

    zia.kelly@phila.gov

    Zia (she/her) collaborates with teams across SUPHR to produce outreach materials and multimedia communications for program partners, healthcare providers and the general public. She leverages the division's digital and social media channels to connect Philadelphians with evidence-based and accessible information about overdose prevention and harm reduction. Before joining SUPHR in January 2024, she developed communications strategies for CDC programs addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and cancer screening rates in rural communities at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. She started her career as a radio producer at a local NPR station. She studied journalism and public health at the University of Missouri - Columbia.

  • Natalie Khek

    GRAPHIC DESIGNER

    natalie.khek@phila.gov

    Natalie (she/her) joined SUPHR as the Graphic Designer in February 2024. Prior to working at SUPHR, she studied Advertising with an Art Direction concentration at Temple University, where she developed her design skills and created many engaging projects to add to her very own portfolio. She also interned at the student-run agency Diamond Edge Communications where she was the art director of a team. Natalie graduated from Temple University with a BA in Advertising and is excited to use her skills to contribute to the work of SUPHR and provide support wherever possible.