The "Research & Dialogue" speaker series places substance use research in dialogue with lived experience to put the latest evidence into real world context.

Each virtual hour-long session takes place on the last Wednesday of the month. The sessions are broken in to a 35-minute presentation, a 10-minute response from the respondent, and a 15-minute Q&A with attendees.

We invite anyone with an interest in the substance use field to attend this speaker series. This includes people with lived and living experience, their friends and family, frontline responders, program and service providers, clinicians, policy makers, researchers and their staff, the media, and anyone in the general public.

Interested in sharing your research? Please reach out to our team.

The first sessions in the "Research & Dialogue" speaker series will begin March 2023 online and feature updates from key research areas of the BC Centre on Substance Use, including longitudinal cohort studies and research on social determinants of health.

The next in our series, scheduled to begin in September 2023, will feature research and respondents from across the province. Watch this space for updates.