Joe Wright
Joe Wright, MD, is an internal medicine and addiction medicine physician for Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. After undergraduate education in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he began his career in public health responding to the HIV epidemic in San Francisco in the 1990s. That eventually led him to HIV vaccine research, science classes at San Francisco State University, an immunology lab at the NIH, and then to Harvard Medical School. As a student, he was a regular commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He trained in internal medicine, with additional training in HIV and primary care, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he then served as a member of the primary care teaching faculty. He came to BHCHP in 2015 to continue to provide primary care but also specifically to respond to the opioid overdose crisis. He led our addiction treatment team for many years, and within the Institute, took part in research collaborations with Drs. Fine, Baggett, and others, that examined retention, mortality, and medication adherence among our patients with opioid use disorder. He stepped down from management roles in fall 2024, and is now a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He is working on a history of the Mass/Cass area of Boston.
