Concurrent 1C: Abstract Session - Trends and Prevention of Drug Related Deaths
Tracks
Track 3
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM |
Speaker
Ms Harika Dasari
Graduate Student
Universite de Montreal
OVERDOSE MORTALITY IN CANADA: LONG-TERM TRENDS, AGE AND SEX DISPARITIES, AND REGIONAL VARIATIONS
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Harika Dasari is a PhD trainee at the Université de Montréal, in epidemiology and substance use research. Her doctoral work focuses on analyzing trends in overdose mortality in Canada, with a particular emphasis on the impact of housing instability and socioeconomic factors among people who inject drugs (PWID).
Dr. David Goodman-Meza
Senior Research Associate
Unsw
EXPLORING POTENTIAL UNDERESTIMATES IN FATAL OVERDOSE MORTALITY ACROSS MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS IN MEXICO BETWEEN 2005-2019
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
David Goodman-Meza is a Senior Research Associate in the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney since 2024. He is a clinician-scientist with expertise in Infectious Diseases and Addiction Medicine.
Dr Oluwatosin Jegede
Graduate Researcher
University of California San Diego
QUANTIFYING THE CONTRIBUTION OF FENTANYL TO NON-FATAL AND FATAL OVERDOSES IN SAN DIEGO, 2020-2024: A MODELING STUDY
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Dr. Oluwatosin Jegede is a Public Health Physician, Epidemiologist, and Modeler. He worked with UNODC on prison health and harm reduction. He is pursuing a PhD in Public Health at UC San Diego, modeling opioid overdose in California, hepatitis C treatment cost-effectiveness in India, and HIV incidence in South Africa.
Miss Kristina Hnízdilová
PhD Student
University of Dundee
Evaluating a Pilot Respiratory Monitoring Programme to Prevent Drug-Related Deaths.
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Kristina Hnizdilova is a final year PhD student at the University of Dundee where she is supervised by Professor John Dillon and Professor Andrew Radley. The aim of her research is to investigate the ability of respiratory monitoring devices to detect respiratory patterns in people who use drugs.
Professor Vana Sypsa
Professor Of Epidemiology And Medical Statistics
National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens
HIGH PREVALENCE OF NON-FATAL OVERDOSE AND GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE AMONG COMMUNITY-RECRUITED PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS IN ATHENS, GREECE: FINDINGS FROM THE ARISTOTLE 2024-2025 PROGRAM
2:45 PM - 2:50 PMBiography
Vana Sypsa is Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her research focuses on infectious diseases epidemiology, particularly HIV and viral hepatitis among people who inject drugs and prisoners. She serves on the European Union Drugs Agency Scientific Committee.
Ms. Alexandra Skinner
Doctoral Candidate
Brown University School of Public Health
A fentanyl overdose prevention intervention involving distribution of fentanyl test strips on non-fatal overdose: A randomized clinical trial
2:50 PM - 2:55 PMBiography
Alexandra Skinner is a third-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research is primarily focused on evaluating how housing and social policies shape overdose risk at local, state, and federal levels across the United States.
Ms. Alexandra Skinner
Doctoral Candidate
Brown University School of Public Health
Trajectories of neighborhood-level overdose risk predictions for prioritization of harm reduction services: results from the PROVIDENT study
2:55 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Alexandra Skinner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research is primarily focused on evaluating how housing and social policies shape overdose risk at local, state, and federal levels across the United States.
Mr Patrick Kelly
Doctoral Student
Brown University School Of Public Health
Healthcare Provider Approaches to Managing the Health Harms of Xylazine in the United States
3:00 PM - 3:05 PMBiography
Patrick Kelly is a doctoral candidate in Behavioral Social Health Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health. His dissertation aims to understand the harmful effects of xylazine and create an eletronic health record phenotype to identify people who have been exposed to xylazine.
