Layal Bou Harfouch

Layal Bou Harfouch is a Drug Policy Analyst at Reason Foundation and a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on harm reduction, bridging evidence-based research with pragmatic policy solutions to improve addiction care. Her experience spans multiple facets of addiction treatment and drug policy, grounded in her background in translational health research and clinical coordination. Bou Harfouch previously coordinated multisite clinical trials in addiction at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Addiction Medicine, where she served as a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator testing a monthly injectable formulation of buprenorphine. She later worked as a Research Coordinator at the Adolescent Addiction Recovery Center at Detroit Medical Center, where she analyzed clinical outcomes and success rates. Bou Harfouch holds an M.S. in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Kinesiology with a minor in Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment from Central Michigan University. Outside her professional life, she values self-care and wellness practices such as yoga and enjoys spending quality time with her family—sources of balance that sustain her personal and professional growth.