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Medicolegal death investigations

Office of Justice Programs (OJP) / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) Resource Page

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the U.S. Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established this Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) to coordinate Federal initiatives to strengthen MDI systems and support death investigation services practiced by medical examiner and coroner offices (MECs) across the United States. The MDI-IWG commenced in...