Stephen Marshall, PhD
Director, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
Katherine Gora Combs, MPH
Research Associate
UNC Injury Prevention Research Center; PhD Student
Department of Epidemiology
University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
The national opioid settlements provide for an $26 billion payout over a 18-year period. The first round of fund transfers to state and local governments occurred in the summer 2022. This presentation describes a multi-year collaboration between the multiple branches of state government and the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center that is intended to facilitate transparency and accountability for opioid settlement spending in NC, and utilizes epidemiologic metrics to assist local government in planning their opioid prevention and mitigation programs.
This seminar is a part of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy first term seminar series “How the Injury Control Research Centers are responding to the Opioid Epidemic: Reports from the Front Lines of a Public Health Crisis”.
