Safer Supply as an Overdose Crisis Response: Implementa

Drawing from two community based, qualitative studies of safer supply programs in Ontario, Canada, Carol Strike, PhD will focus on the role safer supply programs may play in overdose crisis response, program implementation designs, and implementation successes, challenges and perceived outcomes from the perspective of people enrolled in the programs, physicians and nurses who prescribe safer supply, dispensing pharmacists, and the nurses, counsellors, navigators who support the programs. About the Speaker: Carol Strike, PhD is the Associate Dean and Professor, Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research program aims to improve health services for people who use drugs. Currently, she is studying the implementation and outcomes of safer supply programs, remote supervision of drug consumption and the design of gender-inclusive supervised injection. She is the author of many peer-reviewed publications, reports such as the Best Practice Recommendations for Canadian Programs that provide harm reduction supplies to people who use drugs and are at risk of HIV, HCV and other Harms: 2021, recent YouTube videos, and comic books.

Drawing from two community based, qualitative studies of safer supply programs in Ontario, Canada, Carol Strike, PhD will focus on the role safer supply programs may play in overdose crisis response, program implementation designs, and implementation successes, challenges and perceived outcomes from the perspective of people enrolled in the programs, physicians and nurses who prescribe safer supply, dispensing pharmacists, and the nurses, counsellors, navigators who support the programs. About the Speaker: Carol Strike, PhD is the Associate Dean and Professor, Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research program aims to improve health services for people who use drugs. Currently, she is studying the implementation and outcomes of safer supply programs, remote supervision of drug consumption and the design of gender-inclusive supervised injection. She is the author of many peer-reviewed publications, reports such as the Best Practice Recommendations for Canadian Programs that provide harm reduction supplies to people who use drugs and are at risk of HIV, HCV and other Harms: 2021, recent YouTube videos, and comic books.

Drawing from two community based, qualitative studies of safer supply programs in Ontario, Canada, Carol Strike, PhD will focus on the role safer supply programs may play in overdose crisis response, program implementation designs, and implementation successes, challenges and perceived outcomes from the perspective of people enrolled in the programs, physicians and nurses who prescribe safer supply, dispensing pharmacists, and the nurses, counsellors, navigators who support the programs. About the Speaker: Carol Strike, PhD is the Associate Dean and Professor, Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research program aims to improve health services for people who use drugs. Currently, she is studying the implementation and outcomes of safer supply programs, remote supervision of drug consumption and the design of gender-inclusive supervised injection. She is the author of many peer-reviewed publications, reports such as the Best Practice Recommendations for Canadian Programs that provide harm reduction supplies to people who use drugs and are at risk of HIV, HCV and other Harms: 2021, recent YouTube videos, and comic books.