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Kanna Hayashi

ResearcherMedicineUniversity of British Columbia

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Kanna Hayashi

Researcher

Medicine

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Supervision signals

Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
92 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 18 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2014.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2021.

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Academic metrics

288

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Research

Crack Cocaine Drug Addiction Treatment Epidemiology Injection Drug Use Prescription Opioids

Latest papers

Prescribed pharmaceutical alternatives initiative coinciding with reductions in unregulated street opioid use among young people who use drugs: An interrupted time series analysis.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026
Fidelity in the context of adapting a digital intervention for depression from an evidence-based in-person format in Vietnam.
BMC health services research · 2026
Encampment sweeps and persistent homelessness among unhoused people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A prospective cohort study.
PLoS medicine · 2026 · first author

All 288 publications

Latest funding

Strengthening equitable participation in health research in health research: collaboratively designing a framework for quantitative epidemiology and statistics knowledge with community experts with lived experience
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$25,000
Low threshold economic engagement and health equity in inner-city populations: Assessing intersections of economic engagement, work, and health using The ASSET Study
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$99,964
Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse: BC Node
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$2,400,000

All 16 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 288 publications.

Prescribed pharmaceutical alternatives initiative coinciding with reductions in unregulated street opioid use among young people who use drugs: An interrupted time series analysis.

McAdam E, Karamouzian M, Milloy MJ, Verdicchio C, Sayre EC, Hayashi K, Kerr T, DeBeck K

Addiction (Abingdon, England)2026

DOI: 10.1111/add.70573 PMID: 42586551

Fidelity in the context of adapting a digital intervention for depression from an evidence-based in-person format in Vietnam.

Chau LW, Murphy JK, Nguyen VC, Tran HN, Minas H, Lam RW, Hayashi K, Nguyen TTX, Krebs E, O'Neil J

BMC health services research2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-026-15031-x PMID: 42387528

Encampment sweeps and persistent homelessness among unhoused people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A prospective cohort study.

Hayashi K, Sayre EC, McDermid J, Marsh S, Shane C, Milloy MS, P.O.W.E.R., Kerr T

PLoS medicine2026First author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1005033 PMID: 42784559

Payday Loan Use Among People With Lived and Living Experience of Substance Use.

Laing A, Hayashi K, Milloy MJ, Kerr T, Richardson L

Drug and alcohol review2026

DOI: 10.1111/dar.70205 PMID: 42375115

Prevalence and Correlates of Reporting a Gabapentin Prescription for Pain Among People Who Use Opioids: A Longitudinal Community-Recruited Study.

Piret EM, Palis H, Crabtree A, Choi J, DeBeck K, Hayashi K, Law MR, Milloy MJ

Drug and alcohol review2026

DOI: 10.1111/dar.70186 PMID: 42270317

Uptake and Retention on Prescribed Psychostimulants for Harm Reduction: A Canadian Cohort Study.

Bach P, Choi J, Mok WY, Milloy MJ, DeBeck K, Kerr T, Hayashi K

Substance use & addiction journal2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/29767342261443853 PMID: 42105331

Gender differences in the association between housing status and violence among people who report exposure to benzodiazepines.

Swaich A, Rufus-Sedgemore K, Choi J, Boyd J, DeBeck K, Milloy MJ, Sayre EC, Kerr T, Hayashi K

The International journal on drug policy2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105324 PMID: 42119504

Self-reported cannabis use to manage opioid withdrawal symptoms and reductions in opioid use among people who use unregulated opioids: a cross-sectional analysis.

McAdam E, Reddon H, Socías ME, Lake S, Hayashi K, DeBeck K, Walsh Z, Milloy MJ

Journal of cannabis research2026

DOI: 10.1186/s42238-026-00458-0 PMID: 42343486

Take-home naloxone (THN) ownership among a community-based cohort of sex workers who use drugs in metro vancouver: longitudinal trends and structural determinants (2017-2024).

Moreheart S, Shannon K, Krüsi A, Bartels W, Zhou H, Hayashi K, Luba E, Merrison C, Goldenberg SM

Harm reduction journal2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-026-01483-1 PMID: 42277811

Willingness to use microbicides among females who use unregulated drugs in Vancouver, Canada.

Habtegergesa M, McAdam E, Choi J, Verdicchio C, Hayashi K, DeBeck K

AIDS care2026

DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2026.2618621 PMID: 41572437

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Kanna Hayashi

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Prescribed pharmaceutical alternatives initiative coinciding with reductions in unregulated street opioid use among young people who use drugs: An interrupted time series analysis.

Fidelity in the context of adapting a digital intervention for depression from an evidence-based in-person format in Vietnam.

Encampment sweeps and persistent homelessness among unhoused people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A prospective cohort study.

Payday Loan Use Among People With Lived and Living Experience of Substance Use.

Prevalence and Correlates of Reporting a Gabapentin Prescription for Pain Among People Who Use Opioids: A Longitudinal Community-Recruited Study.

Uptake and Retention on Prescribed Psychostimulants for Harm Reduction: A Canadian Cohort Study.

Gender differences in the association between housing status and violence among people who report exposure to benzodiazepines.

Self-reported cannabis use to manage opioid withdrawal symptoms and reductions in opioid use among people who use unregulated opioids: a cross-sectional analysis.

Take-home naloxone (THN) ownership among a community-based cohort of sex workers who use drugs in metro vancouver: longitudinal trends and structural determinants (2017-2024).

Willingness to use microbicides among females who use unregulated drugs in Vancouver, Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Kanna Hayashi

Thomas Kerr

Evan Wood

Kora DeBeck

Lianping Ti

Nadia Fairbairn

Julio Montaner

Lindsey Richardson

Seonaid Nolan

Paxton Bach

Jade Boyd

Hudson Reddon

Bohdan Nosyk

Bohdan Nosyk

Jane Buxton

Michael-John Milloy

Mohammad Karamouzian

Cheyenne Johnson

Jan Klimas

Rolando Barrios

Kate Shannon

Zach Walsh

Ryan Mcneil

Keith Ahamad

Mohammad Karamouzian

Brittany Bingham

Samantha Young

Shira Goldenberg

Mark Gilbert

Kali-olt Sedgemore

Mel Krajden

Michael Law

Carol Strike

John O'Neil

Kimberlyn McGrail

Julian Somers

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

Britt Dennis

Jeannie Shoveller

Janet Raboud