Jade Boyd
PhD
UBC Division of Social Medicine
UBC Rank: Assistant Professor
Areas of
Focus
Dr. Boyd draws upon qualitative, ethnographic and community-based methods to examine social, structural and environmental factors that impact people who use drugs in an effort to reduce the harms of criminalization, including overdose-related harms and barriers to harm reduction.
- Substance use
- Harm reduction
- Overdose
- The gendered impacts of drug policy
- Qualitative, ethnographic and community-based research methods
- Intersectionality
Affiliations & Awards
- BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU), Research Scientist
- Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI)
- Providence Health Care, Interdepartmental Division of Addiction Medicine
- Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award (2020)
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