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United Way of Broward County Honors NSU Staff Member
Doug Hughes, Jim Hall and Kathleen Cannon
Nova Southeastern University is home to one of the foremost experts in the area of substance abuse and health disparities. Jim Hall, an Epidemiologist & Co-director of NSU’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Substance Abuse, Institute for the Study of Human Services, Health and Justice, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Way of Broward County for the impact he has had in bringing awareness and education to the issue of substance abuse. The presentation was made at the United Way’s Sixth-Annual Media Leaders Luncheon.
For the past 29 years, Hall has tracked patterns and trends of substance abuse in Florida as the state’s representative on the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Community Epidemiology Work Group. Hall compiles local drug abuse data including hospitalizations, deaths, addiction treatment, prevalence, and drug pricing, strength and abuse trends, and works closely with local drug abuse coalitions, law enforcement, and other community organizations.