The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A National Symposium

Description

The Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) is a digital archive co-created by the University of California, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University containing millions of documents from the opioid industry that shed light on the root causes of the opioid crisis.

This unique three-day symposium offers a series of complementary panels that will demonstrate OIDA's value in addressing fundamental questions of importance to health policy experts, archivists, and historians.  

Schedule

Day 1: Health Policy and Law (Monday, May 13)

This group of experts will explore how laws and policies are being developed to prevent further harms from the opioid crisis, and the critical role of document disclosure as a means to improve public health.

• Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General's Office
• Aaron Kesselheim, Harvard University
• Regina LaBelle, Georgetown University

Day 2: Information Science (Tuesday, May 14)

In the digital age, organizational records are being produced on a scale that dwarfs physical archives and even digital archives based only on electronic documents. Speakers will talk about the challenges and opportunities of managing and providing access to massive digital collections like OIDA.

• Laurie Allen, Library of Congress
• Rob Sanderson, Yale University
• Ben Lee, University of Washington

Day 3: History and Science of Medicine (Thursday, May 16)

This interdisciplinary panel will discuss the ways in which OIDA collections are an important gateway into telling new stories and developing new analyses about one of the most impactful drug epidemics in U.S. history.

• David Courtwright, University of North Florida
• Antoine Lentacker, University of California, Riverside
• Liz Chiarello, Saint Louis University