Advancing Health Equity in the Overdose Crisis Response
July 30, 2024
ASTHO, in consultation with CDC, created a tool to assess the needs and capacity of recipients of CDC’s 2019 Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) cooperative agreement to incorporate health equity into their overdose prevention and surveillance efforts. The OD2A Health Equity Needs Assessment (HENA) was designed to assess the support, technical assistance, and training that state, local, and territorial health agencies need to promote health equity within their OD2A programs.
Based on the results of the assessment, ASTHO, in partnership with Strickland Health Consulting, identified nine prevalent technical assistance needs and created a compilation of existing resources that address these components of integrating health equity into overdose surveillance and prevention efforts. Learn more about these resources and the OD2A HENA in this document.