Dr. Geoff Bardwell‘s research seeks to understand how social, structural, political, and environmental contexts shape substance use and related public health interventions. He is a social scientist with training and expertise in both qualitative and community-based participatory research. He has conducted research across Canada in various settings, including community health

Jade Boyd, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She draws upon qualitative, ethnographic and community-based methods to examine social, structural and environmental factors that impact people who use drugs. Dr. Boyd

Dr. Kora DeBeck, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and Professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University. She holds a CIHR Applied Public Health Chair and is a Dorothy Killam Fellow. She received a SFU Distinguished Professorship and previously held

Dr. Danya Fast, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the BC Centre on Substance Use and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Since 2008, her work has focused on tracing the evolving substance use and care trajectories of adolescents and young adults,

Dr. Kanna Hayashi, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use, the St. Paul’s Hospital Chair in Substance Use Research, and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. Her research interests and expertise include social and clinical epidemiology of substance use, community-based research, harm

Andrew Ivsins, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is an investigator with the Qualitative and Community Based Research Program, and employs innovative qualitative and ethnographic approaches to understand how

Mary Clare Kennedy, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU). She is also a Canada Research Chair in Substance Use Policy and Practice Research and an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. Dr. Kennedy’s

Dr. Rod Knight, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and leads a program of research focusing on the impacts of drug- and sexual-related harms among young people, including those that can arise from the sexualized use of substances. His research partners closely with several

Hudson Reddon, PhD is a Research Scientist at the BCCSU and Assistant Professor at the UBC Faculty of Medicine. At the BCCSU, Dr. Reddon’s research focus is to conduct innovative longitudinal research to elucidate the risks, as well as the potential benefits, of evolving cannabis use/access patterns among people at