Dr Magdalena Harris is a former drug user who is now an academic in social research for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine. Getting clean led her to pick up her abandoned studies – achieving a PhD looking at the experience of living with Hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia
Dr Harris is a keynote speaker at this country's first Hepatitis C Summit in Wellington, which has an aim of eliminating the disease in New Zealand..She is a lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.