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The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), a private national grant-making foundation focused on ending the nation’s opioid crisis, has announced 11 new grants totaling $4.8 million to support innovative solutions to some of the opioid crisis’ most challenging problems.

Among them: a two-year, $600,000 grant to IU McKinney School of Law Professor Nicolas Terry and Scott Burris, J.D., Professor of Law and Public Health and Director of the Center for Public Health Law and Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

The grant was awarded to Professors Terry and Burris for a project called “Stop Overdose Deaths: Monitoring Comprehensiveness of State Policy to Prevent Overdose Deaths.”

“I am thrilled to be working with Scott Burris and his incredible team at Temple Law’s Center for Public Health Law and Research on this innovative project, “ Professor Terry said.

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and executive director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. Professor Burris is a scholar whose research has focused on how law influences public health and health behavior. He spoke at IU McKinney in 2018 when he was presented with the annual McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award.

In a news release from FORE, President Karen A. Scott said the grants are intended to generate and support new approaches to some of the long-standing barriers to making real progress in addressing the opioid crisis.

“These projects have great potential to give us exciting new tools and lessons that will help communities around the country respond to the crisis more effectively, inform future policy decisions, and ultimately save lives,” she said.