The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: National Symposium 2025 | Day 1: Health Journalism, Law, and Policy

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 virtual symposium offers a series of complementary panels that demonstrates OIDA's value in addressing fundamental questions of importance to historians, health policy and legal experts, journalists, archivists, and people with lived experience. 

Day 1: Health Journalism, Law, and Policy

This group of experts will discuss the role of journalism and storytelling in the development of laws and policies designed to prevent further harms from the opioid crisis as well as the critical role of document disclosure as a means to improve public health.

Speakers:

• Scott Higham, investigative reporter and coauthor of American Cartel
• Rahul Gupta, GATC Health
• Ashton Marra, West Virginia University
• Corey Davis, Network for Public Health Law