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Leveraging existing data on the opioid epidemic to quantify risk and inform policy
Using Risk Maps to Pre-Deploy Services for Overdose, HIV and Hepatitis C Among People Who Inject Drugs (306636)
*Gregg S Gonsalves, Yale School of Public HealthKeywords: HIV, hepatitis C, overdose, opioid, spatiotemporal modeling, disease mapping
How do we make it easier for people who use drugs to get the services they need? People who inject drugs face tremendous barriers in access to care including discrimination and stigma associated with addiction in the healthcare setting, but also the distance and costs associated with travel to facilities. By using spatiotemporal models of overdose risk and HIV and HIV incidence, this work will pre-deploy services where they are needed most, and shift them based on changing needs of people who inject drugs and shifting patterns of substance use and infectious disease outcomes in the local landscape.