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Cheyenne Johnson

Adjunct Professor
Executive Director, BC Centre on Substance Use
VCH Clinical Title(s)
Registered Nurse
Research Focus
Mental Health and BehaviourSubstance Use
Degrees / Designations

RN, MPH, CCRP

Contact Info
cheyenne.johnson@bccsu.ubc.ca
604-376-5089
cheyenne-johnson-rn-mph-ccrp-45270652

Biography

Cheyenne Johnson is Saulteaux (Ojibwe) and mixed Settler ancestry. She is a displaced status member of the Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty 4 Reserve (Valley River) in western Manitoba. She is a registered nurse who works in addiction and substance use care in Vancouver, with a Master of Public Health from Simon Fraser University. She is currently the executive director at the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and the founding director of the BCCSU’s Addiction Nursing Fellowship Program. 

Cheyenne is passionate about providing public education to reduce stigma and improve the addiction system of care in B.C. As an adjunct professor at the School of Nursing at University of British Columbia, she actively collaborates with interdisciplinary clinicians, educators and researchers across Canada. She is currently on the Board of Directors at the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction and with the Portland Hotel Services Society. Cheyenne is also the committee co-chair at the Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program. She has co-authored many articles related to addiction medicine and addiction nursing.

News and Awards

Meet the VCHRI recipients of the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards 2022

May 27, 2022

Publications

  • The lancet. Psychiatry -

    Public health messaging and harm reduction in the time of COVID-19.

    Karamouzian M, Johnson C, Kerr T
  • Journal of addiction medicine -

    Preliminary Results of Psychiatric Inpatients Referred to an Addiction Medicine Consult Service.

    McWilliams C, Bonnie K, Robinson S, Johnson C, Puyat JH, Klimas J
  • The Canadian nurse -

    Harm reduction in the addiction continuum of care.

    Johnson C
  • Addiction science & clinical practice -

    Factors associated with willingness to wear an electronic overdose detection device.

    Ahamad K, Dong H, Johnson C, Hyashi K, DeBeck K, Milloy MJ, Wood E
  • BMJ open -

    Evaluating the intended and unintended consequences of opioid-prescribing interventions on primary care in British Columbia, Canada: protocol for a retrospective population-based cohort study.

    Panagiotoglou D, McCracken R, Lavergne MR, Strumpf EC, Gomes T, Fischer B, Brackett A, Johnson C, Kendall P
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