Mohammad S. Jalali â the principal investigator for a joint simulation modeling project between Harvard researchers and the Food and Drug Administration â presented his labâs ongoing efforts to accurately model the opioid crisis during a Harvard School of Public Health seminar on Tuesday.
Hosted by the Center for Health Decision Science, the event outlined existing research on opioid usage in America, the modelâs development, and tentative results. Health policy professor Joseph S. Pliskin and senior research scientist Lisa A. Robinson served as moderators.
Due to agreements with the FDA, however, the modelâs results must remain confidential to the public until publication in roughly four months, according to Jalali.