Project ECHO: Overdose Fatality Investigation Techniques (OD-FIT)
Project ECHO: Overdose Fatality Investigation Techniques (OD-FIT) is a collaboration between ASTHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide coroners, medical examiners, toxicologists, forensic pathologists, and public health personnel with an opportunity to learn and share their overdose investigation expertise with peers across the United States and territories. By strengthening the medicolegal death investigation system, state and territorial health agencies can improve the accuracy and reliability of overdose death data to benefit public health and safety programs, law enforcement investigations, and upstream prevention strategies.
Project ECHO OD-FIT consists of live online sessions featuring didactic presentations followed by case study discussions. Didactic recordings and accompanying resources from the most recent series can be found below.
Why Should You Join
Who is the ECHO: OD-FIT Hub?
The ECHO: OD-FIT Hub includes expert coroners, medical examiners, and toxicologists from all over the United States. Additional planning team members from ASTHO and CDC have also helped to make these sessions possible. A big thank you to all involved!
- Alfarena “Alfie” McGinty
- Kelly Keyes
- Bruce Goldberger, PhD
- Daniel Dye, MD
- Kurt Nolte, MD
- Tom Gilson, MD
PROJECT ECHO OD-FIT Sessions
Each session includes a PowerPoint slide deck and one-page summary to accompany the session recording. Case studies are not recorded or posted to protect the privacy of participants. Additional information on terminology, presenters, and topic takeaways, can be found on the one-pagers.
Managing Difficult Workplace Experiences and Stress for Medical Examiners and Coroners
Tips and Tricks for Building a Resilient Medicolegal Death Investigators' Workforce
The Intersection of Death Investigation and Overdose Prevention: Why Data Matters
Overdose Fatality Reviews
Work Related Stress and Wellnesss
Differentiating Between Suicidal and Accidental Drug Overdoses
Significant and Contributory Factors
Cause and Manner of Death
Postmortem Toxicology
Forensic Autopsy
Death Scene Investigations
Additional Resources
CDC Resources
Contact Us
This project and publication were supported by the cooperative agreement number, CDC-RFA-OT18-1802, OT18-1802 National Partners Cooperative Agreement, Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation's Health, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.