Jeff Brubacher

Professor

Director, Emergency Research Program

Academic Appointment

Professor

Research Focus

Injuries Substance Use

Degrees / Designations

MD, M.Sc.

Contact Info

jeff.brubacher@ubc.ca

Biography

Dr. Jeff Brubacher is director of the Vancouver General Hospital Emergency Medicine Research Program, director of the Road Safety and Public Health Research Lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and professor in the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine. His research interest focuses broadly on injury prevention and road safety with a special interest in impaired driving, active transportation and substance use and injury.

News and Awards

Ask an expert: How does fatigue affect my ability to drive?

Jan 20, 2025

Behind the lab doors: Sleepy driving simulator study

Jul 17, 2023

Research Excellence Staff Award 2023 Recipients

Jan 10, 2023

People in profile: Mai Hayashi

Nov 16, 2022

Cannabis legalization may have upped the number of older adults driving high

Jun 23, 2022

Ask an expert: What does it mean for road safety now that marijuana will be legalized?

May 11, 2017

Alcohol-related fatal crashes down by 54% owing to controversial law

Aug 20, 2014

Publications

Paediatrics & child health -
Cannabis-impaired driving and Canadian youth.
Brubacher JR, Chan H, Staples JA
Traffic injury prevention -
Marijuana trajectories and associations with driving risk behaviors in Canadian youth.
Sukhawathanakul P, Thompson K, Brubacher J, Leadbeater B
Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention -
Prescription medication use as a risk factor for motor vehicle collisions: a responsibility study.
Asbridge M, Macnabb K, Chan H, Erdelyi S, Wilson M, Brubacher JR
Addiction (Abingdon, England) -
Cannabis use as a risk factor for causing motor vehicle crashes: a prospective study.
Brubacher JR, Chan H, Erdelyi S, Macdonald S, Asbridge M, Mann RE, Eppler J, Lund A, MacPherson A, Martz W, Schreiber WE, Brant R, Purssell RA
The Lancet. Public health -
Medications and risk of motor vehicle collision responsibility in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based case-control study.
Brubacher JR, Chan H, Erdelyi S, Zed PJ, Staples JA, Etminan M

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