Danya Fast
MA, Ph.D.
UBC Division of Social Medicine
UBC Rank: Assistant Professor
Areas of
Focus
Dr. Fast is a medical anthropologist and critical qualitative health researcher. Her research examines how young people who use drugs navigate multiple systems of care and supervision and overlapping crises (housing and homelessness, overdose) in Metro Vancouver.
- Adolescents and Young Adults
- Substance Use
- Treatment and Care
- Housing and Homelessness
- Qualitative, ethnographic, and community-based participatory methods
Affiliations & Awards
- British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
- Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
- Michael Smith Health Research BC
- Department of Anthropology, UBC
- Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award (2018)
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