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, as they navigate overlapping housing and overdose crises in Vancouver and across British Columbia. Danya co-founded the Youth Health qualitative and community-based research program at the BCCSU in 2017. She is the author of The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver.