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Lara Nixon

ResearcherFamily MedicineUniversity of Calgary

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Lara Nixon

Researcher

Family Medicine

Health Sciences

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Advocacy Capacity-Building Community Partnerships Empowerment Health Equity Network-Building Older People With Experiences Of Homelessness Participatory Action Research

Latest papers

Pathways to healing: balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada.
Frontiers in public health · 2026
Multi-level barriers and facilitators to buprenorphine use in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework.
Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025
Increasing Social Connection in Permanent Supportive Housing: A Participatory Study on Therapeutic Recreation for People With Experiences of Homelessness.
The Gerontologist · 2025 · first author

All 14 publications

Latest funding

Advancing Culturally Sensitive Support for Ethnically Diverse, Precariously Housed Older Adults Across Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$24,963
Exchange & GROWTH: Generating Resilience Outcomes through community Wisdom - Transforming Homelessness in later life
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$149,828
Utilizing Health Promotion to Respond to the Drug Toxicity Public Health Emergency: A Cross-Provincial Comparative Analysis of Opioid Agonist Therapy Policy during the COVID-19 Pandemic
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$123,848

All 9 grants and awards

14 publications.

Pathways to healing: balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada.

McLean A, Lucas K, Chief Moon J, Prairie Chicken A, Pauly B, Nixon L, Lamping S, Robinson J, Brown M, Wan-Sai-Cheong L, Zaretsky L, Morin T, Milaney K

Frontiers in public health2026

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1833954 PMID: 42305747

Multi-level barriers and facilitators to buprenorphine use in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework.

Leece P, Khorasheh T, Zerger S, Corace K, Nixon L, Strike C, Bayomi AM, Marks E, Holowaty M, Crichlow F, Taha S, Straus SE

Addiction science & clinical practice2025

DOI: 10.1186/s13722-025-00610-w PMID: 41121195

Increasing Social Connection in Permanent Supportive Housing: A Participatory Study on Therapeutic Recreation for People With Experiences of Homelessness.

Nixon L, Darr K, Sampson M, Punungwe FM, Kelly M

The Gerontologist2025First author

DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnaf089 PMID: 40043209

"A right place for everybody": Supporting aging in the right place for older people experiencing homelessness.

Weldrick R, Canham SL, Sussman T, Walsh CA, Mahmood A, Nixon L, Burns VF

Health & social care in the community2022

DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13871 PMID: 35674005

Impact of health system engagement on the health and well-being of people who use drugs: a realist review protocol.

Salvalaggio G, Ferguson L, Brooks HL, Campbell S, Gladue V, Hyshka E, Lam L, Morris H, Nixon L, Springett J

Systematic reviews2022

DOI: 10.1186/s13643-022-01938-z PMID: 35418306

Impact of an addiction medicine consult team intervention in a Canadian inner city hospital on acute care utilization: a pragmatic quasi-experimental study.

Salvalaggio G, Dong KA, Hyshka E, McCabe C, Nixon L, Rosychuk RJ, Dmitrienko K, Krajnak J, Mrklas K, Wild TC

Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy2022

DOI: 10.1186/s13011-022-00445-7 PMID: 35279178

Being Vulnerable: A Qualitative Inquiry of Physician Touch in Medical Education.

Kelly M, Nixon L, Rosenal T, Crowshoe L, Harvey A, Tink W, Dornan T

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges2020

DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000003488 PMID: 32379142

Patient perspectives on a harm reduction-oriented addiction medicine consultation team implemented in a large acute care hospital.

Hyshka E, Morris H, Anderson-Baron J, Nixon L, Dong K, Salvalaggio G

Drug and alcohol dependence2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.06.025 PMID: 31541875

Drama to promote non-verbal communication skills.

Kelly M, Nixon L, Broadfoot K, Hofmeister M, Dornan T

The clinical teacher2019

DOI: 10.1111/tct.12791 PMID: 29790660

How clinicians integrate humanism in their clinical workplace-'Just trying to put myself in their human being shoes'.

Lee Roze des Ordons A, de Groot JM, Rosenal T, Viceer N, Nixon L

Perspectives on medical education2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s40037-018-0455-4 PMID: 30298438

Advancing Culturally Sensitive Support for Ethnically Diverse, Precariously Housed Older Adults Across Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Kokorelias, Kristina M; Hatzifilalithis, Stephanie; Hoang, Peter; Sheppard, Christine L

Keywords: Equity; Housing; Older Adults; Social Determinants Of Health; Vulnerable Populations

$24,963

Exchange & GROWTH: Generating Resilience Outcomes through community Wisdom - Transforming Homelessness in later life

Nominated PICIHR2025Catalyst Grant: Partnering for Impact - Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research

Principal investigators: Nixon, Lara; Checkland, Claire; Alston, Jillian; Holroyd-Leduc, Jayna M; Kelly, Martina; Straus, Sharon E

Keywords: Advocacy; Capacity-Building; Community Partnerships; Empowerment; Health Equity; Network-Building; Older People With Experiences Of Homelessness; Participatory Action Research; Policy Design; Transdisciplinary

$149,828

Utilizing Health Promotion to Respond to the Drug Toxicity Public Health Emergency: A Cross-Provincial Comparative Analysis of Opioid Agonist Therapy Policy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Catalyst Grant: CPHO Report - General Pool

Principal investigators: Sud, Abhimanyu; Canadian Public Health Association, .

Keywords: Covid-19 Pandemic; Drug Toxicity; Empowerment; Health Promotion; Health Services; Opioid Agonist Therapy; Opioid Use Disorder; Public Health Emergency; Sustainability

$123,848

"Aging Successfully": exploring people's lived experience of late-life homelessness

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Nixon, Lara

Keywords: Experience of Aging; Homelessness; Lived experience; Participatory Action Research; Applied Hermaneutics; Arts-based methods

$73,400

Co-designing equity care with Older People with Experiences of Homelessness (OPEH): exchanging knowledge, and planning system improvement

Nominated PICIHR2023Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Nixon, Lara

Keywords: Ageism; Participatory Research

$46,520

Achieving the quadruple aim and health equity through innovations in opioid use disorder treatment in primary care: A multi-province comparative analysis at the macro and meso levels

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Catalyst Grant: Quadruple Aim and Equity

Principal investigators: Sud, Abhimanyu; Hickcox, Samuel E

Keywords: Barriers To Care; Comparative Analysis; Health Policy; Health Workforce Training; Integration Of Care; Opioid Agonist Therapy; Opioid Use Disorder; Population Health; Primary Care; Quality Of Care

$99,754

Implementation and Evaluation of an Indigenous-Specific Managed Alcohol Program for the Homeless Indigenous Population in Calgary, AB and Victoria, BC

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Milaney, Katrina

Keywords: Co-Creation And Co-Design; Community Based Participatory Research; Community Engagement; Evaluation; Health Equity; Implementation; Indigenous Health Research; Managed Alcohol Program; Severe Alcohol Use; Urban Indigenous Homeless Population

$998,325

Indigenous Primary Health Care and Policy Research (IPHCPR) Network in Alberta

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Operating Grant: NEIHR - Alberta

Principal investigators: Crowshoe, Lynden L; Tailfeathers, Esther; Bablitz, Cara A; Barnabe, Cheryl C; Green, Michael E; Henderson, Rita I; Kennedy, Andrea; Montesanti, Stephanie R; Murry, Adam T

Keywords: Diffusions Of Inovation; Health Inequities; Indigenous, Equity; Inter-Sectoral Collaborations; Jurisdictional Barriers; Preventive Medicine; Primary Care; System Integration

$3,500,000

Characterizing high system use across the primary-tertiary care continuum: parallel analyses of select Canadian health datasets

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Operating Grant: SPOR PIHCI Network: Quick Strikes

Principal investigators: Williamson, Tyler; Affleck, Ewan; Aubrey-Bassler, Kris; Fabreau, Gabriel; McBrien, Kerry; Natarajan, Nandini; Ronksley, Paul E; Singer, Alexander G; Wong, Sabrina T

Keywords: Administrative Databases; Electronic Medical Records; Health Care Utilization; High System Use; Medical Complexity; Primary Care

$76,631

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Lara Nixon

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Pathways to healing: balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada.

Multi-level barriers and facilitators to buprenorphine use in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework.

Increasing Social Connection in Permanent Supportive Housing: A Participatory Study on Therapeutic Recreation for People With Experiences of Homelessness.

"A right place for everybody": Supporting aging in the right place for older people experiencing homelessness.

Impact of health system engagement on the health and well-being of people who use drugs: a realist review protocol.

Impact of an addiction medicine consult team intervention in a Canadian inner city hospital on acute care utilization: a pragmatic quasi-experimental study.

Being Vulnerable: A Qualitative Inquiry of Physician Touch in Medical Education.

Patient perspectives on a harm reduction-oriented addiction medicine consultation team implemented in a large acute care hospital.

Drama to promote non-verbal communication skills.

How clinicians integrate humanism in their clinical workplace-'Just trying to put myself in their human being shoes'.

Advancing Culturally Sensitive Support for Ethnically Diverse, Precariously Housed Older Adults Across Canada

Exchange & GROWTH: Generating Resilience Outcomes through community Wisdom - Transforming Homelessness in later life

Utilizing Health Promotion to Respond to the Drug Toxicity Public Health Emergency: A Cross-Provincial Comparative Analysis of Opioid Agonist Therapy Policy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

"Aging Successfully": exploring people's lived experience of late-life homelessness

Co-designing equity care with Older People with Experiences of Homelessness (OPEH): exchanging knowledge, and planning system improvement

Achieving the quadruple aim and health equity through innovations in opioid use disorder treatment in primary care: A multi-province comparative analysis at the macro and meso levels

Implementation and Evaluation of an Indigenous-Specific Managed Alcohol Program for the Homeless Indigenous Population in Calgary, AB and Victoria, BC

Indigenous Primary Health Care and Policy Research (IPHCPR) Network in Alberta

Characterizing high system use across the primary-tertiary care continuum: parallel analyses of select Canadian health datasets

Frequent collaborators

Martina Kelly

Ginetta Salvalaggio

Elaine Hyshka

Carol Strike

Neil Drummond

Tamara Sussman

Jane Springett

Katrina Milaney

Sheena Taha

Kathryn Dong

Christopher McCabe

Pamela Leece

Bernadette Pauly