Wednesday, May 20, 2026,
3 PM CST via Zoom

Join us for a Panel & Roundtable of the Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice, a collaboration of researchers and practitioners that meet regularly to share, discuss, and learn how geospatial methods, tools, and models can be used to build understanding and develop resources for the opioid epidemic. 

This session aims to explore the opioid crisis from the viewpoints of different disciplines. Our panel, consisting of an epidemiologist, clinical physician, and sociologist, will discuss how they model and represent the places & communities impacted by the opioid epidemic. A geographer and social epidemiologist will moderate.

Our Panelists:

• Noa Krawczyk, PhD,  New York University
• Paul Joudrey, MD,  Pittsburgh University Medical Center
• Sylvia McKelvie,  PhD Candidate, Oxford University

Moderated By:

• Marynia Kolak, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Geospatial Core Co-Lead
• Basmattee Boodram, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago, Geospatial Core Co-Lead

Get ready for this discussion by reading the panelists’ recommended articles, available at at https://gccp.healthyregions.org.

Roundtable Session

After the Panel, join us for a half-hour Roundtable to discuss current topics/trends, research, and share resources. Roundtable presentations/discussions can be up to 10 minutes per topic, or 1-2 minutes for general announcements. Learn more and propose a topic here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-Roundtable. Roundtable items are accepted on a rolling basis until we’re fully booked.

Join the GCCP

The Geospatial Consortium & Communities of Practice is brought to you by the Geospatial Core of the National Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center, as part of the NIDA/NIH Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network.

Not a member of the GCCP but would like to join? Learn more & join us at https://gccp.healthyregions.org/.