Applying Boundary Spanning Leadership Principles to Overdose Data to Action Efforts
August 26, 2025 | Alyssa Merski, Alice Schenall
The Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) cooperative agreement provides funding to health departments to decrease drug overdoses and related harms. OD2A program leaders need to navigate complex leadership challenges when implementing overdose prevention and surveillance strategies, such as working with many different partners and managing their teams to bring data to action. Since 2021, ASTHO has been training OD2A program leaders in Boundary Spanning Leadership to address these challenges. Learn how Boundary Spanning Leadership principles support OD2A programs in this report.