Lourie Lecture: The Opioid Epidemic: A Practice & Policy Perspective
Dr. Paul and Natalie Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall
The Center for Policy Research (CPR) conducts interdisciplinary research and related activities in social sciences and public policy, including aging and health studies, education finance and policy, public finance, social welfare, poverty, and income security, urban and regional studies, and econometrics methodology. Faculty work on a variety of research grants related to public policy, which involve graduate students as assistants and consult with government agencies and other institutions concerned with the issues they are studying;The Maxwell School is a graduate school of social science with a unique multidisciplinary character that cuts across traditional departmental lines. At Maxwell, theory and practice are regarded with equal seriousness: the barriers that divide academic disciplines from one another and from the larger world of public life are routinely breached by the wide-ranging scholarly and educational activities of an outstanding faculty and an exceptionally cosmopolitan student body
Dr. Gail D’Onofrio will deliver the 29th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy titled “The Opioid Epidemic: A Practice & Policy Perspective”. Dr. D’Onofrio is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. D’Onofrio is internationally known for her work as an independent investigator in drug and alcohol research. She is a recognized leader in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine, and has participated in many National Institute of Health (NIH) panels and on review committees, including the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). D’Onofrio’s research and publications have appeared in high impact journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Resuscitation, and Addiction.
The Lourie Lecture is free and open to the public, RSVP is strongly recommended.
For more information, please contact Laura Walsh by email at lcwalsh@maxwell.syr.edu or by phone at 315.443.9929.
Sponsored by the Center for Policy Research