Sarah Edwards is the Community Program Lead under the Drug Overdose Prevention Program at the Rhode Island Department of Health. In this role she leads programmatic overdose prevention and harm reduction initiatives as well as the implementation and management of all Mobile Outreach contracts. Ms. Edwards coordinates statewide efforts with community partners to increase harm reduction and overdose prevention strategies and identify high burden areas to provide targeted interventions.

Nathaniel Fuchs, MPH is a Principal Public Health Epidemiologist in the Substance Use Epidemiology Program (SUEP) at the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH). At RIDOH, Mr. Fuchs leads the surveillance of non-fatal opioid overdose data. Mr. Fuchs works to integrated multiples sources of overdose data, making them actionable by developing alerts and communicating trends to community partners and the public.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the Rhode Island Department of Health’s Levels of Response plan and Opioid Overdose Integrated Surveillance System
2. Demonstrate turning data into action
3. Develop partnerships and community focused approaches (Woonsocket focused) 

Continuing Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. The Rhode Island Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Physicians: Rhode Island Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participations in this activity.

Intended Audience

Medical professionals. 

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