Research Projects

Here you can view summaries of our active and completed major research projects, and links to our publications and presentations. Our research projects align with our program’s themes:

1) Substance use policy and practice

2) Transitions in care

Active projects

• Facilitating Income Support Attachment Among Socially Marginalized Patients at an Inner City Acute Care Hospital

• Implementation Science Supporting the Scale-Up of Supervised Consumption Services in Canada

• Implementing Harm Reduction Services in Acute Care: Patient and Healthcare Provider Experiences

• Implementing Supervised Consumption Services at the Royal Alexandra Hospital: Staff Perspectives

• RAH SCS Implementation Evaluation

• Impact of Health System Engagement on the Health and Well-Being of People Who Use Drugs: A Realist Review

• Bridge Healing: Access to Transitional Housing from the Emergency Department

• Co-creating Health System Innovation with People Who Use Drugs in Central Edmonton

• Towards culturally safe partnerships with Indigenous People Who Use Drugs

• Perceptions and Experiences of Women and Gender-Diverse People Who Have Survived a Drug Poisoning/Overdose

Completed projects

• Non-Injectable Forms of Supervised Drug Consumption: A Scoping Review

• ARCH Patient Outcomes Evaluation

• ARCH Process Evaluation

• ARCH Team Implementation Fidelity Study

• Mother's Stories of Advocacy Following their Child’s Substance Passing

• Optimizing Continuity during Inner City Transitions in Care

• Patient Characteristics Associated with Being Offered Take Home Naloxone in a Busy, Urban Emergency Department: A Retrospective Chart Review

• Supporting the Full Participation of People Who Use Drugs in Policy Fora: Provision of a Temporary, Conference-based Overdose Prevention Site

• Edmonton Drug Poisoning and Overdose Response Teams Evaluation Summary

• Expanding Access to OAT Initiation in Emergency Departments

• Responding to Dual Public Health Crises in the Emergency Department: Advancing Patient-centered Care for People Who Use Opioids During COVID-19

• COVID-19 Response for Urban Underserved Patients Experiencing Care Transitions

• Family Caregiving for People Who Use Drugs in Rural Settings

• Canadian Harm Reduction Policy Project

• What is a "Public Health Approach to Substance Use"? A Scoping Review