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Focused on a state with the fifth highest drug overdose mortality rate in the U.S., this study examined the perspectives of staff in six hospitals on the processes, challenges, and facilitators to buprenorphine initiation and warm handoff protocols in emergency departments. It yielded results that can be used to optimize implementation of those evidence-based modes of treatment and ongoing care.

The Vital Strategies eLearning system provides a range of self-paced courses on epidemiology, public health communication, and civil registration and vital statistics. These can be accessed freely and completed in a modular format. 

Verbal autopsy is a technique for determining the most medically likely causes of death, where no physician is available to complete a medical certificate of cause of death. This study analyzed the reliability of a particular model of verbal autopsy for estimating the probability that the causes of 112 deaths in São Paolo, Brazil, were associated with COVID-19.

Recommendations in this document illustrate how reporting can help change the discourse about road safety as a public health issue and denormalize the prevalence of these tragic events in our communities.

This study's findings support the adoption of warning labels that can improve consumer understanding of nutrition information and assist consumers in determining the nutritional quality of packaged foods and drinks.

Since 2015, Tanzania has been upgrading its civil registration and vital statistics system including efforts to improve the availability and quality of mortality data. In this case study, the computer application ANACONDA provided an effective means for evaluation of such efforts and helped target interventions to remaining weaknesses.