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Sarah Auger
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Latest papers
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
Rural community-based participatory research with families of people who use drugs: key considerations from a multi-provincial research partnership.
Harm reduction journal · 2025
Including Families in a Response to the Unregulated Toxic Drug Crisis: A Call to Action.
Substance use & misuse · 2025
Latest funding
- $200,000
Expanding compulsory drug treatment in Alberta: Perspectives of people who use drugs and healthcare providers
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $500,000
Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
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
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
Co-creating health system innovation with people who use drugs.
McBeth R, Sandberg C, Varewny V, Piggott B, Ajani A, Auger S, Campbell-Scherer D, Dong K, Hyshka E, Srinivasan C, Twan S, Umpherville L, Salvalaggio G
Expanding compulsory drug treatment in Alberta: Perspectives of people who use drugs and healthcare providers
Principal investigators: Hyshka, Elaine; Dong, Kathryn A; Salvalaggio, Ginetta L; Twan, Shanell
Keywords: Community-Engaged Research; Compulsory Drug Treatment; Focused Ethnography; Illegal Drug Use; Structural Vulnerability
Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality
Keywords: Indigenous Studies; Indigenous relationality; governance and political traditions; Indigenous research; Indigenous politics; knowledge transfer; traditions of relationality
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
- Elaine Hyshka and Ginetta Salvalaggio: 28 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Kathryn Dong: 23 shared papers
- Denise Campbell-Scherer and Ginetta Salvalaggio: 19 shared papers
- Kathryn Dong and Ginetta Salvalaggio: 19 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Rebecca Haines-Saah: 10 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Petra Schulz: 9 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Shanell Twan: 8 shared papers
- Ginetta Salvalaggio and Shanell Twan: 8 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Holly Mathias: 6 shared papers
- Rebecca Haines-Saah and Petra Schulz: 6 shared papers
- Kathryn Dong and Shanell Twan: 5 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Sarah Auger: 4 shared papers
- Em Pijl and Elsie Duff: 4 shared papers
- Petra Schulz and Holly Mathias: 3 shared papers
- Petra Schulz and Sarah Auger: 3 shared papers
- Holly Mathias and Sarah Auger: 3 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Em Pijl: 2 shared papers
- Elaine Hyshka and Elsie Duff: 2 shared papers
- Ginetta Salvalaggio and Rebecca Haines-Saah: 2 shared papers
- Petra Schulz and Em Pijl: 2 shared papers
- Petra Schulz and Elsie Duff: 2 shared papers
- Em Pijl and Sarah Auger: 2 shared papers
- Sarah Auger and Elsie Duff: 2 shared papers
- Maria Mayan and Elaine Hyshka: 1 shared paper
- Maria Mayan and Rebecca Haines-Saah: 1 shared paper
- Maria Mayan and Petra Schulz: 1 shared paper
- Maria Mayan and Sarah Auger: 1 shared paper
- Denise Campbell-Scherer and Elaine Hyshka: 1 shared paper
- Denise Campbell-Scherer and Kathryn Dong: 1 shared paper
- Denise Campbell-Scherer and Sarah Auger: 1 shared paper
- Kathryn Dong and Sarah Auger: 1 shared paper
- Ginetta Salvalaggio and Sarah Auger: 1 shared paper
- Rebecca Haines-Saah and Sarah Auger: 1 shared paper
- Shanell Twan and Sarah Auger: 1 shared paper
- School of Public Health
- College of Nursing
- Family Medicine Dept
- Aboriginal Teacher Education Program
- Human Ecology Dept
- Department of Emergency Medicine
- Department of Community Health Sciences
- 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
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Petra Schulz
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Holly Mathias
Human Ecology Dept
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Elsie Duff
College of Nursing
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Em Pijl
College of Nursing
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Maria Mayan
School of Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Shanell Twan
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Rebecca Haines-Saah
Department of Community Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Denise Campbell-Scherer
Family Medicine Dept
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kathryn Dong
Department of Emergency Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Ginetta Salvalaggio
Family Medicine Dept
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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