Through the generous support of RWJF, IAPHS has coordinated the efforts of an Expert Group comprised of Magdalena Cerdá, Ricky Bluthenthal, Carmen Albizu-Garcia, and Kelly Knight. The group’s purpose was to provide needed expertise to facilitate integration of a social determinants of health framework into opioid overdose prevention, opioid use disorder treatment, and recovery services.
Carmen E. Albizu-Garcia, MD, is professor in the Evaluation and Evaluation Research master’s program at the Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, and a researcher in the institution’s Center for Evaluation and Sociomedical Research. Read more
Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean for Social Justice and Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and the Institute for Prevention Research in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Read more
Magdalena Cerdá is a Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Read more
Kelly Ray Knight, PhD is a medical anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of California – San Francisco (UCSF). Read more
Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Overdose Prevention
Magdalena Cerda, Bennett Allen, Kelly R. Knight
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and System-Level and Practice-Level Options for Addressing the Overdose Death Crisis
Carmen Albizu Garcia, Siddhi Ganesh, Ricky N. Bluthenthal
