Events – Northwestern Public Health Review

Past Events

2017 Public Health Matters Symposium

Samer Attar, MD – Feinberg School of Medicine
Suzanne Akhras Sahloul – Syrian Community Network
John Daugherty – UIC Biomedical Visualization
Juliet Sorensen, JD – Pritzker School of Law

2017 Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Opioids and Addiction in Chicagoland

Identifying the Metrics of Success in an Interdisciplinary Addiction Response

Building off of the momentum generated by the 2016 Interdisciplinary Symposium on the opioids epidemic, this fall the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law will host a full-day roundtable titled Identifying the Metrics of Success in Interdisciplinary Addiction Response. This facilitated discussion provides a unique opportunity for experts in this field to dive deeper than is normally possible when attending symposia or short meetings, and will result in targeted long-term commitments, including a working group and a white paper.

Keynote Address: Ed Siskel, “Step One, Admitting We Have a Problem: Leadership Responses to the Opioids Epidemic at Federal, State, and Local Levels”

An afternoon keynote address by Ed Siskel on the opioid and addiction response in Chicagoland will be open to the public.

For an introduction to the opioid epidemic please visit the NPHR Blog to read the following pieces:

(1) “The ongoing discussion: An introduction to the 2017 interdisciplinary roundtable on opioids addiction in Chicagoland” by Nelly Papalambros

(2) “Cresting the arc of the opioids epidemic: An interdisciplinary approach as the path forward” by Elise Meyer