549: Role of Schools in Preventing Teen Overdose, CDC Builds Outbreak Modeling Network

Dr. Lauren Tanz, an Epidemiologist with the CDC, talks about the rising numbers of teen overdose deaths in the United States; Dr. Dylan George, Director of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the CDC, discusses the CDC's creation of a new national network to improve outbreak and disease modeling; and Public Health Thank You Day was yesterday.

CDC Webpage: Drug Overdose Deaths Among Persons Aged 10–19 Years — United States, July 2019–December 2021

NPR News Article: As more teens overdose on fentanyl, schools face a drug crisis unlike any other

CDC Webpage: Insight Net – National Outbreak Analytics & Disease Modeling Network

American Public Health Association Webpage: Public Health Thank You Day