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Patricia Spittal
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Research
Latest papers
Navigating concurrent public health emergencies: Indigenous perspectives from the Cedar Project in British Columbia.
PLOS global public health · 2025
"My feelings and my thoughts are my lived experience, not the numbers they show me on a piece of paper": Indigenous experiences of liver transplantation in British Columbia, Canada.
International journal of circumpolar health · 2024
Experiences of HIV among global Indigenous populations through the lens of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The lancet. HIV · 2023
Latest funding
- $120,000
The Cedar Project: Exploring land-based health and healing among young Indigenous peoples who use drugs in two Canadian cities.
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
- $100,000
Program of Outcomes Research on Treatment with Injectables for Addiction: Accessibility Needs and Tangible Actions
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $1,977,524
The Cedar Project: Strengthening Our Spirit Intervention for Indigenous peoples who use drugs in Vancouver, BC
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
6 publications.
Navigating concurrent public health emergencies: Indigenous perspectives from the Cedar Project in British Columbia.
Cassidy-Matthews C, Hendry J, Pearce M, Pooyak S, Zamar D, Reading J, Caron N, Schechter M, Spittal P, Christian W
"My feelings and my thoughts are my lived experience, not the numbers they show me on a piece of paper": Indigenous experiences of liver transplantation in British Columbia, Canada.
Cassidy-Matthews C, Pearce M, Hussaini T, Spittal P, Caron N, Daley C, Alfred R, Yoshida EM
Experiences of HIV among global Indigenous populations through the lens of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Braley E, Hendry J, Braley M, Cassidy-Matthews C, Waters S, Christian W, Spittal P, Demerais L, Pooyak S, Behn Smith D, Jongbloed K
Factors Associated with Perceived Abuse in the Health Care System Among Long-Term Opioid Users: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Palis H, Marchand K, Peng D, Fikowski J, Harrison S, Spittal P, Schechter MT, Oviedo-Joekes E
The Role of Gender in Factors Associated With Addiction Treatment Satisfaction Among Long-Term Opioid Users.
Marchand K, Palis H, Peng D, Fikowski J, Harrison S, Spittal P, Schechter MT, Oviedo-Joekes E
The Cedar Project: methadone maintenance treatment among young Aboriginal people who use opioids in two Canadian cities.
Yang J, Oviedo-Joekes E, Christian KW, Li K, Louie M, Schechter M, Spittal P
The Cedar Project: Exploring land-based health and healing among young Indigenous peoples who use drugs in two Canadian cities.
Principal investigators: Bizzotto, Riley N
Keywords: Cultural Interventions; Indigenous Young People; Land Based Health And Wellbeing; Resilience; Substance Use
Program of Outcomes Research on Treatment with Injectables for Addiction: Accessibility Needs and Tangible Actions
Principal investigators: Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia
Keywords: Accessibility; Disability; Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment; Opioid Use Disorder; Opioid-Dependence; Providers
The Cedar Project: Strengthening Our Spirit Intervention for Indigenous peoples who use drugs in Vancouver, BC
Principal investigators: Spittal, Patricia M
Keywords: Fentanyl Crisis; Hiv/Aids; Indigenous Young People; Substance Use
The Cedar Project: Strengthening Our Spirit Intervention for Indigenous peoples who use drugs in two Canadian cities
Principal investigators: Spittal, Patricia M
Keywords: Fentanyl Crisis; Hiv/Aids; Indigenous Young People; Substance Use
Identifying a path forward to measure racism as a determinant of health within BC population health and wellness reporting
Principal investigators: Henry, Bonnie J; Behn Smith, Daniele M; Jongbloed, Kate; Ogilvie, Gina S
Keywords: Bipoc; Equity; Indicators; Public Health; Racism
The Cedar Project: Preparing for culturally-safe, trauma informed COVID-19 response among young Indigenous people who use drugs in Prince George and Vancouver, BC
Principal investigators: Spittal, Patricia M; Schechter, Martin T
Keywords: Barriers To Care; Covid-19; Indigenous People Who Use Drugs; Safe Quarantine/ Isolation
Evaluating a culturally-safe, strengths-based case management approach to facilitate hepatitis C treatment among Indigenous people who use drugs in BC
Principal investigators: Mazzuca, April E
Keywords: Culturally-Safe Case Management Approach; Health Systems; Hepatitis C Treatment; Indigenous People Who Use Drugs; Integrated Knowledge Translation
The Cedar Project: Healing-centered care for urban Indigenous young people who use drugs in British Columbia
Principal investigators: Cassidy-Matthews, Chenoa M
Keywords: Complex Trauma; Drug Use; Harm Reduction; Hcv Vulnerability; Hiv Vulnerability; Indigenous Methodology; Indigenous Young People; Resilience; Urban Indigenous Health; Wellness
Program of Outcomes Research on Treatment with Injectables for Addiction
Principal investigators: Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia
Keywords: Best Worst Scaling; Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment; Opioid Use Disorder; Opioid-Dependence; Street Opioid Use; Treatment Retention
Indigenizing harm reduction in response to the opioid crisis: A scoping review and community-based research projects with First Nations in BC
Principal investigators: Ward, Amanda J; DeBeck, Kora A; Loppie, Charlotte J; Marsden, Namaste; Shannon, Kate; Small, William G
Keywords: First Nations; Harm Reduction; Indigenous; Mental Health; Opioid Crisis; Opioid 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
- Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes and Scott Harrison: 31 shared papers
- Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes and Kirsten Marchand: 26 shared papers
- Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes and Heather Palis: 18 shared papers
- Scott Harrison and Kirsten Marchand: 16 shared papers
- Kirsten Marchand and Heather Palis: 16 shared papers
- Scott Harrison and Heather Palis: 13 shared papers
- Martin Schechter and Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes: 7 shared papers
- Martin Schechter and Scott Harrison: 6 shared papers
- Patricia Spittal and Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes: 3 shared papers
- Patricia Spittal and Chenoa Cassidy-Matthews: 3 shared papers
- Patricia Spittal and Martin Schechter: 2 shared papers
- Patricia Spittal and Nadine Caron: 2 shared papers
- Patricia Spittal and Scott Harrison: 2 shared papers
- Patricia Spittal and Kirsten Marchand: 2 shared papers
- Patricia Spittal and Heather Palis: 2 shared papers
- Nadine Caron and Chenoa Cassidy-Matthews: 2 shared papers
- Patricia Spittal and Wayne Christian: 1 shared paper
- Patricia Spittal and Shannon Waters: 1 shared paper
- Patricia Spittal and Kate Jongbloed: 1 shared paper
- Wayne Christian and Martin Schechter: 1 shared paper
- Wayne Christian and Nadine Caron: 1 shared paper
- Wayne Christian and Chenoa Cassidy-Matthews: 1 shared paper
- Chenoa Cassidy-Matthews and Shannon Waters: 1 shared paper
- Chenoa Cassidy-Matthews and Kate Jongbloed: 1 shared paper
- Shannon Waters and Kate Jongbloed: 1 shared paper
- School of Population and Public Health
- Emergency Medicine
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Social Medicine
- 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.
Chenoa Cassidy-Matthews
Emergency Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes
School of Population and Public Health
3 shared papers, latest 2016
Heather Palis
School of Population and Public Health
2 shared papers, latest 2016
Scott Harrison
School of Population and Public Health
2 shared papers, latest 2016
Kirsten Marchand
School of Population and Public Health
2 shared papers, latest 2016
Nadine Caron
Obstetrics and Gynecology
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Martin Schechter
School of Population and Public Health
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Kate Jongbloed
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Shannon Waters
Social Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Wayne Christian
School of Population and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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