June Sivilli is a public health drug policy expert.  Her decades leading demand reduction/public health drug policy at the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) in the Executive Office of the President, forming and advocating drug policy under six administrations, provide her a unique perspective and vision for effective drug policy approaches.

Ms. Sivilli’s extensive public health policy career includes multiple leadership and technical roles at ONDCP including Assistant Director for Public Health, Education and Treatment, Public Health Budget Officer, Acting Deputy Director for Demand Reduction, Public Health Division Chief, Treatment Branch Chief and International Advisor for Demand Reduction, developing and advancing the agencies public health policies and priorities to improve services for people with substance use disorders, both domestically and internationally. She delivered the first Plenary presentation on Demand Reduction at the United Nations and was the US primary author of the first UN Demand Reduction Treaty and Action Plan. She led federal initiatives to integrate screening and treatment into mainstream health, the expansion of the use of medication for opioid use disorder including in carceral settings, integration of behavioral health/substance use disorder in implementation of the Affordable Care Act, development and dissemination of SUD Core curriculum for health and academic programs, expansion of the SUD workforce and the establishment of Addiction Medicine as a medical sub-specialty. She drafted the first two National Treatment Plans in 2019 and 2024, led implementation across Federal Agencies and with national stakeholders, and wrote chapters of the National Drug Control Strategy.  In 2023, June was the proud recipient of the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine’s ‘Keeper of the Flame’ Award.

She holds advanced degrees from SUNY Stony Brook and George Washington University.

Prior to joining ONDCP, Ms. Sivilli conducted research for Federal agencies in the private sector.