Biography
Dr. Kanna Hayashi is a research scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use, the St. Paul’s Hospital Chair in Substance Use Research, and associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. Her research interests and expertise include social and clinical epidemiology of substance use, community-based research, harm reduction, substance use care and equity-promoting approaches to drug policy and programming. She leads the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study, one of the largest and longest-running prospective cohort studies of community-recruited people who use drugs in the world.
