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Holly Mathias
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Latest papers
Growing together: reflections on Canada’s first interdisciplinary women’s health research training program
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · 2026 · first author
Towards caring communities: A community-based qualitative inquiry of family caregiving for people who use drugs in rural settings.
The International journal on drug policy · 2026 · first author
Using health service data to understand unregulated toxic drug deaths in Alberta (2018-2023): an ecological study.
Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2026 · first author
Latest funding
- $98,026
Understanding youth and parental attitudes toward road safety and driving in Alberta
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $7,620
The Drug Poisoning Crisis in Rural Canada: Unpacking the Scientific Evidence, Sharing Promising Practices, and Collaborating for the Future
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
15 publications.
Growing together: reflections on Canada’s first interdisciplinary women’s health research training program
Holly Mathias, Ashleigh Rushton, Sherri Dutton, Carmela Melina Albanese, Lesley Ann Foster, Karen V. Lithgow, Janelle Boram Lee, Bethany J. Sander, Chantal L. Rytz, Taniya Singh Nagpal, Leticia Radin Pereira
Towards caring communities: A community-based qualitative inquiry of family caregiving for people who use drugs in rural settings.
Mathias H, McCrindle J, Mirza N, Haines-Saah R, Mayan M, Duff E, Pijl EM, Schulz P, Auger S, Gravel-Ouellette A, Lockhart T, Hyshka E
Using health service data to understand unregulated toxic drug deaths in Alberta (2018-2023): an ecological study.
Mathias H, Lithgow KV, Thomson E, Benny C, Tailfeathers E, Hyshka E
Rural community-based participatory research with families of people who use drugs: key considerations from a multi-provincial research partnership.
Mathias H, Duff E, Schulz P, Auger S, Gravel-Ouellette A, Lockhart T, McCorriston W, McCrindle J, Mirza N, Pijl E, Savard T, Hyshka E
Including Families in a Response to the Unregulated Toxic Drug Crisis: A Call to Action.
Mathias H, Auger S, Schulz P, Hyshka E
Defining a public health approach to substance use: insights from a systematic scoping review and conceptual framework development approach.
Mathias H, Gehring ND, Hammond RM, Navarrete J, Crépault JF, Emerson B, Markov A, Kosteniuk B, Speed K, Candler E, Dyck G, Galarneau LR, Issa T, Alvarado JCO, Campbell S, Hyshka E
Expanding supervised consumption services in rural Canada: Bridging gaps.
Mirza N, Mathias H, Hyshka E
Improving access to inflammatory bowel disease care in Canada: The patient experience.
Lalani S, Mathias H, Heisler C, Rohatinsky N, Mirza RM, Kits O, Zelinsky S, Nguyen G, Lakatos PL, Fowler S, Rioux K, Jones JL
Features of drug addiction treatment programs in Atlantic Canada that help (or not) with access and retention: A qualitative study.
Mathias H, Jackson LA, Buxton JA, Dubé A, Kiepek N, MacDonald JA, Martin F, Smith J
What features of drug treatment programs help, or not, with access? a qualitative study of the perspectives of family members and community-based organization staff in Atlantic Canada.
Mathias H, Jackson LA, Buxton JA, Dubé A, Kiepek N, Martin F, Martin P
Understanding youth and parental attitudes toward road safety and driving in Alberta
Principal investigators: Benny, Claire
The Drug Poisoning Crisis in Rural Canada: Unpacking the Scientific Evidence, Sharing Promising Practices, and Collaborating for the Future
Principal investigators: Hyshka, Elaine; Schulz, Petra
Keywords: Community Engagement; Drug Poisoning; Families; Harm Reduction; Knowledge Mobilization; Rural Places; Substance Use
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Charles Bernstein and Laura Targownik: 235 shared papers
- Eric Benchimol and Gilaad Kaplan: 178 shared papers
- Charles Bernstein and Gilaad Kaplan: 147 shared papers
- Eric Benchimol and Ellen Kuenzig: 140 shared papers
- Gilaad Kaplan and Ellen Kuenzig: 130 shared papers
- Eric Benchimol and Charles Bernstein: 120 shared papers
- Eric Benchimol and Laura Targownik: 100 shared papers
- Gilaad Kaplan and Laura Targownik: 98 shared papers
- Eric Benchimol and Geoffrey Nguyen: 83 shared papers
- Geoffrey Nguyen and Charles Bernstein: 68 shared papers
- Charles Bernstein and Ellen Kuenzig: 68 shared papers
- Geoffrey Nguyen and Gilaad Kaplan: 63 shared papers
- Gilaad Kaplan and Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez: 62 shared papers
- Laura Targownik and Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez: 57 shared papers
- Eric Benchimol and Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez: 56 shared papers
- Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez and Sharyle Fowler: 39 shared papers
- Eric Benchimol and Kate Lee: 33 shared papers
- Charles Bernstein and Kate Lee: 29 shared papers
- Gilaad Kaplan and Kate Lee: 29 shared papers
- Noelle Rohatinsky and Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez: 23 shared papers
- Laura Targownik and Noelle Rohatinsky: 17 shared papers
- Noelle Rohatinsky and Sharyle Fowler: 15 shared papers
- Laura Targownik and Sharyle Fowler: 14 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Petra Schulz: 9 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Holly Mathias: 6 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Sarah Auger: 4 shared papers
- Em Pijl and Elsie Duff: 4 shared papers
- Jane Buxton and Niki Kiepek: 3 shared papers
- Jane Buxton and Anik Dube: 3 shared papers
- Jane Buxton and Fiona Martin: 3 shared papers
- Niki Kiepek and Anik Dube: 3 shared papers
- Niki Kiepek and Fiona Martin: 3 shared papers
- Petra Schulz and Holly Mathias: 3 shared papers
- Petra Schulz and Sarah Auger: 3 shared papers
- Anik Dube and Fiona Martin: 3 shared papers
- Noelle Rohatinsky and Holly Mathias: 3 shared papers
- Sharyle Fowler and Holly Mathias: 3 shared papers
- Holly Mathias and Sarah Auger: 3 shared papers
- Geoffrey Nguyen and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Em Pijl: 2 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Claire Benny: 2 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Elsie Duff: 2 shared papers
- Jane Buxton and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Niki Kiepek and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Laura Targownik and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Esther Tailfeathers and Karen Lithgow: 2 shared papers
- Petra Schulz and Em Pijl: 2 shared papers
- Petra Schulz and Elsie Duff: 2 shared papers
- Anik Dube and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Karen Lithgow and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Em Pijl and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Fiona Martin and Holly Mathias: 2 shared papers
- Holly Mathias and Elsie Duff: 2 shared papers
- Eric Benchimol and Holly Mathias: 1 shared paper
- Maria Mayan and Elaine Hyshka: 1 shared paper
- Maria Mayan and Petra Schulz: 1 shared paper
- Maria Mayan and Em Pijl: 1 shared paper
- Maria Mayan and Holly Mathias: 1 shared paper
- Charles Bernstein and Holly Mathias: 1 shared paper
- Gilaad Kaplan and Holly Mathias: 1 shared paper
- Elaine Hyshka and Esther Tailfeathers: 1 shared paper
- Elaine Hyshka and Karen Lithgow: 1 shared paper
- Kate Lee and Holly Mathias: 1 shared paper
- Esther Tailfeathers and Holly Mathias: 1 shared paper
- Esther Tailfeathers and Claire Benny: 1 shared paper
- Chantal Rytz and Karen Lithgow: 1 shared paper
- Chantal Rytz and Holly Mathias: 1 shared paper
- Karen Lithgow and Claire Benny: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Kuenzig and Holly Mathias: 1 shared paper
- Holly Mathias and Claire Benny: 1 shared paper
- School of Public Health
- Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
- College of Nursing
- Department of Medicine
- Medicine
- Human Ecology Dept
- Aboriginal Teacher Education Program
- Other
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Elaine Hyshka
School of Public Health
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Jennifer Jones
Faculty
5 shared papers, latest 2025
Jennifer Jones
Department of Medicine
5 shared papers, latest 2025
Sarah Auger
Aboriginal Teacher Education Program
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Sharyle Fowler
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Noelle Rohatinsky
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Petra Schulz
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Elsie Duff
College of Nursing
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Fiona Martin
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Geoffrey Nguyen
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Lois Jackson
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Jane Buxton
Department of Emergency Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Niki Kiepek
School of Occupational Therapy
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Laura Targownik
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Anik Dube
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Karen Lithgow
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Em Pijl
College of Nursing
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Claire Benny
School of Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Rebecca Haines-Saah
Department of Community Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Eric Benchimol
Department of Paediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Esther Tailfeathers
Emergency Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Chantal Rytz
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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