Rod Knight
PhD
UBC Division of Social Medicine
UBC Rank: Affiliate Assistant Professor
Areas of
Focus
Dr. Knight’s program of research aims to identify how interventions can address the socio-cultural and structural conditions that put youth “at risk” for substance use-, sexual health-, and mental health-related harms, while concurrently developing treatment and care strategies that improve youth health.
- Youth health
- Equity-owed populations
- Substance use
- Sexual health
- Social determinants of health
- Social sciences
Affiliations & Awards
- Research Scientist, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU)
- Assistant Professor, University of Montreal, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (DMSP)
- Research Scientist, Centre de recherche en santé publique (CReSP)
- Research Scientist, Institut Universitaire sur les dépendances (IUD)
- Affiliate Faculty Member, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE)
- Associate Member, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
- Scholar, Junior 2, Fonds de Recherche du Quebec – Health
- Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award (2018-2023)
- Outstanding Academic Performance Award, UBC Faculty of Medicine (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
- Top Ten Article of the Year – Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (2021)
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