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Friday, 22 February 2019 8:30 AM - Saturday, 23 February 2019 1:00 PM EST
108 North Jefferson Street, 7th floor, Roanoke, VA, 24016, United States
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Each Team Member must register individually. Team members will be contacted by a member of the Virginia Tech Roanoke Center staff to get additional information and provide details.
Guests will receive additional information via email with regards to parking, food venues and more.
Virginia Tech Roanoke Center (located inside the Roanoke Higher Education Center), 108 North Jefferson Street, Roanoke, VA, 24016, United States.
According to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, over 20 percent of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them, leading to an epidemic of addiction. In 2017, over 1,000 people died from opioid overdosing in Virginia alone (including prescription opioids, fentanyl and heroin). A Virginia Department of Health report says that opioid-related deaths in Roanoke quadrupled between 2016 and 2017.The 2019 Virginia Tech Roanoke Center Opioid Datathon is a competition organized in collaboration with the Urgent Love Initiative of Southwest Virginia that will bring together bright, multi-discipline teams. Teams will analyze different data sets and turn them into useful information that will support local initiatives and policies in allocating optimal resources to the region's opioid addiction epidemic.Data stewards from health and other relevant agencies across the region will provide non-sensitive, de-identified data to this challenge for the teams to explore and use. Public and open data sets will also be used.The desired focus o the 2019 Virginia Tech Roanoke Center Opioid Datathon is on prevention targeting youth - getting parents and community stakeholders involved in coversation and raising awareness and education of opioid addiction.We are looking forward to playing a part in the fight against opioids!We will be accepting 10 total teams of 5 people each - five professional teams (of individuals not actively enrolled in higher education) and five student teams (of individuals currently enrolled full-time in an institution of higher education). Student teams are highly encouraged to be interdisciplinary in make-up. There will be a vetting process for team participation. The event will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, and 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23. The event will be held at the Virginia Tech Roanoke Center.
The Virginia Tech Roanoke Center (VTRC) operates under Outreach and International Affairs (OIA) of Virginia Tech. The Center offers a variety of educational degrees and provides professional development opportunities to meet the specialized needs of those who live and work in the Roanoke Region.
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