Overdose fatality reviews (OFRs) involve a series of individual death reviews by a multidisciplinary team. This process facilitates a deeper understanding of the circumstances and significant life events that may contribute to increased risk of overdose death to identify innovative and effective community-specific overdose prevention strategies. This session highlights various communities’ experiences with blending input from public health, criminal justice, public safety, providers, and the community to develop program and policy recommendations to improve coordination and collaboration between agencies and community conditions to prevent future overdose deaths. This session also provides information regarding OFR training and technical assistance support, funded by BJA and the CDC.

Presenters:

Assistant Chief Theresa Tobin, Commanding Officer, Behavioral Health Division, New York City Police Department

Lauren Savitskas, Overdose Fatality Program Manager, Fatality Review and Prevention, Indiana State Department of Health

Facilitator:

Melissa Heinen, B.S.N., M.P.H., Senior Research Associate, IIR