December 3, 2018: ZevRoss Spatial Analysis awarded contract to investigate community risk factors for opioid addiction

Zev is a co-investigator on a large new federally-funded project to investigate the community factors that most strongly influence opioid addition and other behavioral health issues. The ZevRoss Spatial Analysis team will be working with researchers at Emory University, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to create a geo-database of variables, develop machine learning predictive models and create an R package to automate and facilitate modeling and data access.