Marcie McIlveen is the program director of HAMSMART and a sessional professor at McMaster in Health Sciences. She has lived experience of homelessness, hospitalization, substance use, and criminal justice involvement. Her commitment to this work and to change centres around those experiences. She finds it both honouring and humbling to have the opportunity to walk alongside people as they chart their path

Liz is a specialist gastroenterology/hepatology pharmacist working in a hospital in North Wales. Her particular interest is hepatitis C and she prescribes for both community and prison hepatitis C clinics.

Dr Albert Edgar Manyuchi is a Program Manager at Anova Health Institute who provides management oversight to the key populations portfolio encompassing the harm reduction program targeting people who inject drugs in Johannesburg Health District in South Africa.

Annabelle Stevens is completing a PhD at the Kirby Institute, UNSW titled Evaluation of diagnostic testing strategies to increase testing and treatment for hepatitis C infection in Australia. Annabelle is passionate about the elimination of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs.

Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite is an Assistant Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award.

Mo Korchinski is Executive Director of Unlocking the Gates, a non-profit society that provides support to people leaving correctional centres in BC

Dr. Michelle Olding (MPH, PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher in the division of social and behavioral sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Drawing on qualitative, ethnographic and participatory methods, Dr. Olding studies community-based and health system interventions to advance health equity for people who use drugs.

Jolene is CDPE’s Lead of Cohort Studies and Community Engagement. With roots in harm reduction and program management going back to the Downtown East Side of Vancouver. Jolene is committed to serving populations that are substance-using, equity deserving with histories of homelessness, complex medical challenges including HIV and Hep C.

Tanisha Palmer is a Research Assistant at the CDPE, providing administrative and outreach support to the T-DOT cohort studies. Tanisha has front-line experience working with people who use drugs (PWUD) across different service sectors such as community health, housing and overdose prevention sites. Tanisha’s passion lies in harm reduction education, particularly geared towards youth and knowledge translation aiming to improve existing services that support people who use drugs, particularly those who are under and unhoused. She is passionate about community engagement, with a health equity lens to address the gaps in healthcare delivery for our most vulnerable community members. Tanisha holds a Master of Arts in Social Justice and Community Engagement.

Orville is Jamaican-Canadian and currently the Director of Health Promotion at Black CAP - a Toronto-based Black-specific non-profit. His work addresses anti-Black racism, HIV and substance use-related stigma, homophobia, and other barriers to social inclusion. Orville holds a BSc. in Economics and Gender Studies from University of the West Indies.

Rafaela Rigoni, head of research at C-EHRN, has over two decades of drug policy and harm reduction expertise. With a PhD in Development Studies, she specialises in monitoring, evaluation, and qualitative research methods. She coordinates the Civil Society Monitoring of Harm Reduction in Europe at C-EHRN

My name is Armand NSABABAGANWA, I have a Bachelor Degree in Health Sciences (Public Health option) and am passionate about improving the health of people who use drugs. My specialist interest is in harm reduction. I am a former drug user committed to tacking inequalities, stigma and discrimination.