Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: The Opioid Crisis: Disrupting the Status Quo with the HEALing Communities Study

February 14, 2:00–3:00p.m. ET.

We're now on Instagram! Follow us @NIMHgov NEWS AND EVENTS Director's Innovation Speaker Series: The Opioid Crisis: Disrupting the Status Quo with the HEALing Communities Study Date/Time: February 14, 2023, 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET Location: Virtual  Register to attend During this lecture, Sharon L. Walsh, Ph.D., will discuss how the HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is testing the prevention and treatment of opioid misuse in select communities hard hit by the opioid crisis. Dr. Walsh will describe how the HCS has begun to expand access to evidence-based care, improve data availability and timeliness, address social determinants of health, reduce stigma through public health communications campaigns, and modify relevant policies. The Director's Innovation Speaker Series encourages broad, interdisciplinary thinking in the development of scientific initiatives and programs and presses for theoretical leaps in science over the continuation of incremental thought. Watch previous Director's Innovation Speaker Series lectures at nimh.nih.gov/InnovationSeries.

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