The Public Health Insight Podcast will be hosting a Live Interactive Video Podcast on Saturday, July 17 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST featuring Dr. Andrea Sereda, family physician and avid harm reductionist, who focuses her practice on people who use drugs, people living in homelessness, and women involved in the survival sex trade. In this conversation, we will be covering topics such as:

• The Opioid Epidemic
• Harm Reduction
• Street Outreach Medicine
• Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) Program

Guest Profile

• Recognized as a Top 40 Canadian Under 40
• Lead physician for the London Intercommunity Health Centre Safe Opioid Supply program, which is currently the longest running of its kind in Canada
• Family physician and avid harm reductionist who focuses her practice on people who use drugs, people living in homelessness, and women involved in the survival sex trade
• Provides care in a traditional office setting, but also through street outreach medicine; going to where people are at in shelters, encampments, or anything in between

Link to Event Recording:

Part 1: https://publichealthinsight.buzzsprout.com/1023340/9191140-opioid-poisoning-crisis-the-story-of-alcohol-prohibition-repeating-itself

Part 2: https://publichealthinsight.buzzsprout.com/1023340/9232421-harm-reduction-solutions-inspired-by-the-community-safe-opioid-supply-and-street-outreach-medicine