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Karen Urbanoski
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Research
Latest papers
Safer opioid supply clients' values and preferences: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research.
BMJ mental health · 2025
Integrated treatment programs for pregnant and parenting people support longer retention compared to standard treatment programs: A population-based cohort study.
Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025 · first author
Implementation of risk mitigation prescribing during dual public health emergencies: A qualitative study among Indigenous people who use drugs and health planners in Northern British Columbia, Canada.
The International journal on drug policy · 2025
Latest funding
- $1,147,500
Measuring the Costs and Social Returns of Matriarchal Kinship Care: The Nita Survey
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Perinatal Opioid Exposures, Trajectories, Insights and Concentrations: The POETIC Network
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $638,776
An evaluation of the health, criminal justice, and service use outcomes of the Ministry of Health assuming responsibility for prison health care services in BC (PRISM-BC)
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
20 publications.
Safer opioid supply clients' values and preferences: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research.
Nafeh F, Martignetti L, Kolla G, Bonn M, Falah Langeroodi SM, Urbanoski K, Pauly B, Werb D, Karamouzian M
Integrated treatment programs for pregnant and parenting people support longer retention compared to standard treatment programs: A population-based cohort study.
Urbanoski K, Iwajomo T, Gomes T, de Oliveira C, Milligan K
Implementation of risk mitigation prescribing during dual public health emergencies: A qualitative study among Indigenous people who use drugs and health planners in Northern British Columbia, Canada.
Barker B, Norton A, Wood S, Macevicius C, Hogan K, Cadieux K, Meilleur L, Nosyk B, Urbanoski K, Pauly B, Wieman N
Examining Safer Opioid Supply Policies.
Nosyk B, Slaunwhite A, Urbanoski K
Opioid Coprescription Through Risk Mitigation Guidance and Opioid Agonist Treatment Receipt.
Min JE, Guerra-Alejos BC, Yan R, Palis H, Barker B, Urbanoski K, Pauly B, Slaunwhite A, Bach P, Ranger C, Heaslip A, Nosyk B
Perinatal Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy (iOAT) Administration: A Case Series.
Patricelli CJ, Chai J, Gordon S, Gouin IJ, Carter N, Stewart K, Paquette V, Urbanoski K, Albert A
Breastfeeding on Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy: A Case Report.
Patricelli CJ, Gouin IJ, Gordon S, Carter N, Albert A, Paquette V, Stewart K, George S, Urbanoski K
Specifying the Relations among PTSD Symptom Clusters and Parenting Stress in Mothers Engaged in Substance Use Treatment.
Peak JM, Ingram V, Urbanoski K, Milligan K
Analysis of the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health demonstrates employment insecurity to be associated with mental illness.
Kim IH, Choi CC, Urbanoski K, Park J, Kim JM
Evaluation of risk mitigation measures for people with substance use disorders to address the dual public health crises of COVID-19 and overdose in British Columbia: a mixed-method study protocol.
Nosyk B, Slaunwhite A, Urbanoski K, Hongdilokkul N, Palis H, Lock K, Min JE, Zhao B, Card KG, Barker B, Meilleur L, Burmeister C, Thomson E, Beck-McGreevy P, Pauly B
Measuring the Costs and Social Returns of Matriarchal Kinship Care: The Nita Survey
Principal investigators: Shahram, Sana; Bingham, Brittany L; Ndumbe-Eyoh, Sume; Urbanoski, Karen A
Keywords: Caregiving And Kinship Care; Data Governance; Health Equity; Health Systems Research; Indigenous Health; Maternal And Child Health; Participatory Action Research; Research Co-Production; Social Epidemiology; Social Return On Investment
Perinatal Opioid Exposures, Trajectories, Insights and Concentrations: The POETIC Network
Principal investigators: Patricelli, Charissa; Alcorn, Mary-Jane; Colantonio, David; Drogemoller, Britt I; Gartner, Kali; Kelly, Lauren; Kerpan, Serene T; Knight, Erin; Leong, Christine; Lyons, Laura M; Oberlander, Timothy F; Turner, Suzanne
Keywords: Biorepository; Feasibility; Health Outcomes; Infants; Neonatal Withdrawal; Opioids; Pharmacogenomics; Pregnancy; Women'S Health
An evaluation of the health, criminal justice, and service use outcomes of the Ministry of Health assuming responsibility for prison health care services in BC (PRISM-BC)
Principal investigators: Slaunwhite, Amanda K; Nicholls, Tonia L; Schütz, Christian G
Keywords: Administrative Health Data; Health Care Governance; Health Care Systems; Health Equity; Health Of Incarcerated Populations; Interrupted Time Series
Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse: BC Node
Principal investigators: Wood, Evan; Tupper, Kenneth; Fairbairn, Nadia S; Johnson, Cheyenne H; Nolan, Seonaid; Socías, María E
Keywords: Addiction; Clinical Trials; Hiv/Aids; Substance Use
Estimating the value and long-term impact of implementing Risk Mitigation Guidance to reduce the harms of substance use disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic: A simulation modeling analysis
Principal investigators: Nosyk, Bohdan P; Irvine, Michael A; Krebs, Emmanuel; Slaunwhite, Amanda K
Keywords: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Economic Modeling; Harm Reduction; Opioid Use Disorder; Overdose; Risk Mitigation Guidance; Service Systems; Simulation Modeling; Substance Use
A mixed methods evaluation of risk mitigation measures to address the dual public health crises of COVID-19 and overdose
Principal investigators: Slaunwhite, Amanda K; Hongdilokkul, Natt; Nosyk, Bohdan P; Pauly, Bernadette M; Urbanoski, Karen A
Keywords: Epidemiology; Health Policy; Infectious Diseases; Mixed Methods; Overdose; Pandemic Response; Public Health; Substance Use
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Bohdan Nosyk and Bohdan Nosyk: 145 shared papers
- Karen Milligan and Karen Milligan: 20 shared papers
- Amanda Slaunwhite and Heather Palis: 19 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Urbanoski: 17 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Urbanoski: 16 shared papers
- Kurt Lock and Heather Palis: 11 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Amanda Slaunwhite: 10 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Brittany Barker: 10 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Amanda Slaunwhite: 9 shared papers
- Brittany Barker and Brittany Barker: 9 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Karen Urbanoski: 8 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Amanda Slaunwhite: 8 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Brittany Barker: 8 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Brittany Barker: 8 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Brittany Barker: 8 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Urbanoski: 7 shared papers
- Karen Milligan and Karen Urbanoski: 7 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Milligan: 7 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Urbanoski: 7 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Natt Hongdilokkul: 6 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Brittany Barker: 6 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Natt Hongdilokkul: 6 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Brian Rush: 5 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Gillian Kolla: 5 shared papers
- Frank Sullivan and Christopher Meaney: 5 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Brian Rush: 5 shared papers
- Gillian Kolla and Gillian Kolla: 5 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Urbanoski: 4 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Karen Urbanoski: 4 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Urbanoski: 4 shared papers
- Amanda Slaunwhite and Kurt Lock: 4 shared papers
- Mohammad Karamouzian and Gillian Kolla: 4 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Milligan: 3 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Karen Milligan: 3 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Kurt Lock: 3 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Heather Palis: 3 shared papers
- Karen Milligan and Karen Urbanoski: 3 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Brian Rush: 3 shared papers
- Bohdan Nosyk and Karen Urbanoski: 3 shared papers
- Karen Milligan and Karen Urbanoski: 3 shared papers
- Amanda Slaunwhite and Karen Urbanoski: 3 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Benedikt Fischer: 2 shared papers
- Benedikt Fischer and Karen Urbanoski: 2 shared papers
- Benedikt Fischer and Gillian Kolla: 2 shared papers
- Karen Milligan and Claire de Oliveira: 2 shared papers
- Claire de Oliveira and Karen Milligan: 2 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Mohammad Karamouzian: 2 shared papers
- Amanda Slaunwhite and Natt Hongdilokkul: 2 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Brittany Barker: 2 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Brittany Barker: 2 shared papers
- Karen Urbanoski and Heather Palis: 2 shared papers
- John Cunningham and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- John Cunningham and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Karen Urbanoski and Gillian Kolla: 1 shared paper
- Benedikt Fischer and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Christian Schütz and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Christian Schütz and Amanda Slaunwhite: 1 shared paper
- Christian Schütz and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Claire de Oliveira and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Claire de Oliveira and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Harold Siden and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Karen Urbanoski and Frank Sullivan: 1 shared paper
- Karen Urbanoski and Christopher Meaney: 1 shared paper
- Frank Sullivan and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Gillian Kolla and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Natt Hongdilokkul and Karen Urbanoski: 1 shared paper
- Karen Urbanoski and Kurt Lock: 1 shared paper
- Karen Urbanoski and Christopher Meaney: 1 shared paper
- Karen Urbanoski and Mohammad Karamouzian: 1 shared paper
- Karen Urbanoski and Gillian Kolla: 1 shared paper
- Karen Urbanoski and Brian Rush: 1 shared paper
- Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
- Psychology
- Social and Epidemiological Research
- School of Population and Public Health
- Emergency Medicine
- School of Nursing
- Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research
- Other
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Karen Urbanoski
Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
17 shared papers, latest 2025
Karen Urbanoski
Social and Epidemiological Research
4 shared papers, latest 2019
Karen Urbanoski
Psychology
4 shared papers, latest 2019
Bohdan Nosyk
Faculty
4 shared papers, latest 2025
Bohdan Nosyk
Emergency Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Karen Milligan
Social and Epidemiological Research
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Karen Milligan
Psychology
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Amanda Slaunwhite
School of Population and Public Health
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Heather Palis
School of Population and Public Health
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Brittany Barker
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Brittany Barker
Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Gillian Kolla
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Brian Rush
Epidemiology Division
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Kurt Lock
Emergency Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Sheryl Spithoff
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Christopher Meaney
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Mohammad Karamouzian
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Tara Gomes
Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Paul Kurdyak
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Pamela Leece
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Paxton Bach
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Gillian Kolla
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Vicky Stergiopoulos
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Natt Hongdilokkul
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
John Cunningham
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Benedikt Fischer
Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Vicky Stergiopoulos
Li Ka Shing Knowledge
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Christian Schütz
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Claire de Oliveira
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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