The Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) is a digital archive co-created by the University of California, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University containing millions of documents from the opioid industry that shed light on the root causes of the opioid crisis. This unique virtual symposium offers a series of complementary panels that demonstrates OIDA’s value in addressing fundamental questions of importance to historians, health policy and legal experts, journalists, archivists and people with lived experience.

DAY 1: Health Journalism, Law and Policy

• Scott Higham, CBS News/60 Minutes
• Rahul Gupta, GATC Health
• Ashton Marra, West Virginia University
• Corey Davis, Network for Public Health Law

This group of experts will discuss the role of journalism and storytelling in the development of laws and policies designed to prevent further harms from the opioid crisis, and the critical role of document disclosure as a means to improve public health.

OIDA was launched by UCSF and Johns Hopkins in March 2021 as a free public resource. The digital repository includes publicly disclosed documents arising from litigation brought against opioid manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies and consultants by local and state governments and tribal communities. Read more

The Hopkins team includes faculty and staff from the schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Engineering, the Welch Medical Library, and the Sheridan Libraries' Digital Research and Curation Center.