Dr. Geoff Bardwell Bardwell is a Research Scientist at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU). He is a community-based qualitative health researcher who focuses primarily on opioid use, overdose prevention, and the implementation of public health interventions targeted toward people who use drugs. His research uses qualitative and

Brittany Barker, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and a Health System Impact Fellow with the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA). Dr. Barker is a leading co-investigator of the FNHA-led, BCCSU-partnered $2.5M CIHR grant to support and evaluate five community-based Indigenous harm reduction initiatives

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. She is also an Associate Member in the Department of Anthropology at UBC. Since 2007, her ethnographic research in Vancouver,

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 Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. Her primary research interests and expertise include social and clinical epidemiology of substance use, community-based

Mary Clare Kennedy, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr. Kennedy’s research focuses on social-structural dimensions of health andinterventions designed to improve health outcomes among people

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

Dr. Ryan McNeil, 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 (UBC). Through his qualitative and ethnographic research, he seeks to identify social, structural, and environmental influences on risk, harm, and health

Dr. M-J Milloy, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). On January 1, 2019, he began his appointment as UBC’s inaugural Canopy Growth Professor of Cannabis Science,

Dr. Will Small, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Small’s work applies social science methods to study public health issues among illicit drug users, with a focus on HIV