B.Sc. in Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 2012
Master of Public Health, University of Alberta, 2014
I’m excited to join the ISGP doctoral community at UBC! My early years were spent at this university while my mother pursued her PhD in Botany, so it’s great to be back to where I was born and raised.
In 2017, I began working at the Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes in Vancouver where I was primarily responsible for coordinating an overdose-related community-based participatory research study based in the Fraser East region of British Columbia. Our main analyses involved identifying reasons for unwitnessed overdose deaths and examining perspectives of family carers of people at risk of overdose. To extend this work, I will be examining socio-cultural factors affecting the experience of unwitnessed overdoses within young people who are ethnic minorities in BC as part of my doctoral studies. As a visual artist and qualitative methodologist, I have a keen interest in exploring arts-based methods to uncover deeper and more nuanced understandings of the lived experiences of people using drugs.
Awards
President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award
overdose; substance use; mental health; socio-cultural dimensions of health;
An integrated approach to care attracts people living with HIV who use illicit drugs in an urban centre with a concentrated HIV epidemic
Meaningful engagement of people living with HIV who use drugs: methodology for the design of a Peer Research Associate (PRA) hiring model
Distributive Leadership Within an Emerging Network of Integrated Youth Health Centres: A Case Study of Foundry
Scoping review of stepped care interventions for mental health and substance use service delivery to youth and young adults
Barriers and facilitators to improving the cascade of HIV care in Ontario: a mixed method study
The Overdose Crisis and Using Alone: Perspectives of People Who Use Drugs in Rural and Semi-Urban Areas of British Columbia
Substance use and overdose risk: documenting the perspectives of formerly incarcerated persons in the Fraser East region of BC
Stepped Care, a Closer Look: Reviewing Evidence and Evaluating Outcomes
Developmental evaluation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Practice-based learnings from projects in British Columbia, Canada
Integrated HIV care and service engagement among people living with HIV who use drugs in a setting with a community-wide treatment as prevention initiative: a qualitative study in Vancouver, Canada