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Jade Boyd

Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor
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Addictions and Substance Abuse
Contact Info
jade.boyd@bccsu.ubc.ca

Biography

Dr. Jade Boyd is a research scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She draws upon qualitative, ethnographic and community-based methods to examine social, structural and environmental factors that impact people who use drugs, with particular emphasis on how gender—intersecting with race, class and sexuality—influences drug policy and practice. In her role with the BCCSU, Dr. Boyd collaborates with local and national peer-based, drug user-led groups, as well as leads a program of qualitative and community-based research activities investigating drivers of drug-related harms among women, including barriers to harm reduction and the criminalization of women who use drugs. Her work is supported by a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research/St. Paul’s Foundation/BCCSU Scholar Award.

News and Awards

The harm of stigma against mothers who use drugs

Aug 19, 2022

Specialized overdose prevention strategies needed for women

Jan 13, 2019

Publications

  • Journal of substance abuse treatment -

    "They went down that road, and they get it": A qualitative study of peer support worker roles within perinatal substance use programs.

    Olding M, Cook A, Austin T, Boyd J
  • Drug and alcohol dependence -

    Navigating post-eviction drug use amidst a changing drug supply: A spatially-oriented qualitative study of overlapping housing and overdose crises in Vancouver, Canada.

    McNeil R, Fleming T, Collins AB, Czechaczek S, Mayer S, Boyd J
  • The International journal on drug policy -

    Essential work, precarious labour: The need for safer and equitable harm reduction work in the era of COVID-19.

    Olding M, Barker A, McNeil R, Boyd J
  • Culture, health & sexuality -

    Negotiating sex work and client interactions in the context of a fentanyl-related overdose epidemic.

    Lavalley J, Collins AB, Mayer S, Gaudette L, Krüsi A, McNeil R, Boyd J
  • The International journal on drug policy -

    "Bed Bugs and Beyond": An ethnographic analysis of North America's first women-only supervised drug consumption site.

    Boyd J, Lavalley J, Czechaczek S, Mayer S, Kerr T, Maher L, McNeil R
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