BJA FY24 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program

The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) - through its Office of Overdose Prevention - will implement the program entitled Data-driven Health Systems Change for Prevention (DHSCP). The purpose of this program is to develop a comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative Overdose Fatality Review (OFR), incorporating key partners from across San Francisco. Expected outcomes include establishing a comprehensive and collaborative OFR; timely, actionable, community-responsive, and locally-specific overdose fatality data; enhanced collaboration across healthcare, public safety, justice-involved, and community partners; enhanced understanding of service gaps and identification of potential touchpoints for overdose interventions; and the identification of local, context-specific solutions to prevent overdose. While the San Francisco community at large is intended to benefit from the increased overdose surveillance and availability of timely data, this program will place a particular emphasis on addressing the profound racial disparities in fatal overdoses experienced by San Francisco’s Black/African American community.  SFDPH will partner with the Center for Substance Use and Health (CSUH) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to implement this project.