Education
MS, Industrial (Mining) Safety, Marshall University
BA, English, Fairmont State College
Prior to joining the Health Affairs Institute, Herb worked as Program Director of Collaboration and Communication in the Health Research Center in the WVU School of Public Health. He initially joined WVU in 2011 as the Outreach Coordinator and later Deputy Director of the WVU Injury Control Research Center (ICRC). During his 10-year WVU career, he has been primarily engaged in efforts to address the opioid overdose epidemic in the state. He engaged and supported local and state partners in planning and implementing overdose education and naloxone distribution programs, and programs that provide peer recovery support services in local communities in high-risk WV counties while with the ICRC.
More recently, he is leading an effort to plan and implement SUD programs in WV hospital emergency departments. Prior to joining WVU, Linn retired from a 25-year career in federal government which culminated in his role as the Associate Director for Communications for the Division of Safety Research of the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Morgantown. He also worked as a Claims Examiner for the Veterans Administration in Huntington, W.Va. in the late 1970s.