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Multiple Perspectives on Overdose Fatality Reviews

Event Dates
Eastern
Event Duration
1 hour
Location
Online

This webinar will provide an overview of overdose fatality reviews (OFRs) with a specific focus on engaging partnerships with coroners, medical examiners, and medicolegal death investigators.  The presenters will highlight OFRs that have been implemented by engaging the medicolegal death investigation system and will discuss challenges and recommendations associated with implementing an OFR.

The webinar will consist of three presentations on OFRs highlighting a county-level, a rural community, and a state-wide approach.  The following presentations will be included in the webinar:

  1. Ocean County (New Jersey) OFR: A County Approach to Conducting Social Autopsies
  2. Jay County (Indiana) OFR: A Rural Community Approach to Conducting Social Autopsies
  3. Utah State Department of Health OFR: Important Partnerships

Date Created: November 19, 2020