Statistics of Interest

Medical Examiner

Forensic Laboratories

A core mission of the Regional Forensic Science Center is to collaborate with public health stakeholders to prevent deaths and improve the physical wellbeing of citizens throughout the region. In pursuit of this, our Medical Investigations and Drug Identification Laboratory are currently engaging in a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to gather data from drugs and drug paraphernalia found at scenes of death. This data provides real-time information about lethal drugs distributed locally and is shared with the Sedgwick County Health Department, the CDC, and our community. The program is Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) and focuses on tracking the overdose crisis and integrating data with prevention strategies.