Sharon Karsten, Vancouver Island University

Research

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Latest papers

Patient-oriented research: An essential driver of learning health system capacity development.
Healthcare management forum · 2024
Walk With Me: reducing harm and confronting the toxic drug poisoning crisis in small British Columbia cities through community engaged research.
Harm reduction journal · 2024 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Healing Histories, Transforming Futures: Intergenerational Learning and Truth-Telling for Survivors and Indigenous Youth Health Pathways
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$1,468,800
Bridging the Gaps: Building Compassionate, Collaborative Responses to the Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis in Small British Columbia Cities
HRBC · 2025 · Supervisor
Walking Together: Strengthening Peer Leadership in Island Health towards a reduction in stigma and improvements in health services for people at the heart of the toxic drug crisis
HRBC · 2024 · Principal investigator

All 5 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Patient-oriented research: An essential driver of learning health system capacity development.

Strosher H, Hainstock T, Karsten S, Whyte B, Hauschildt C, McMillan T, Sboto-Frankenstein U, Trytten C

Healthcare management forum2024

DOI: 10.1177/08404704241235601 PMID: 38511346

02

Walk With Me: reducing harm and confronting the toxic drug poisoning crisis in small British Columbia cities through community engaged research.

Wideman T, Karsten S, Walk With Me Team

Harm reduction journal2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-024-01022-w PMID: 38822343

Healing Histories, Transforming Futures: Intergenerational Learning and Truth-Telling for Survivors and Indigenous Youth Health Pathways

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Cranmer, Laura A; Brebber, Belvie; Wager, Amanda C

Keywords: Colonial History; Cultural Wellness; Health Education; Health Equity; Health Services And Policy; Indigenous Health; Indigenous Language Revitalization; Intergenerational Knowledge; Theatre Education; Youth Pathways

$1,468,800

Bridging the Gaps: Building Compassionate, Collaborative Responses to the Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis in Small British Columbia Cities

SupervisorHRBC2025Research Trainee Award

Principal investigators: Wideman, Trevor

Walking Together: Strengthening Peer Leadership in Island Health towards a reduction in stigma and improvements in health services for people at the heart of the toxic drug crisis

Principal investigatorHRBC2024Reach Award

Principal investigators: Karsten, Sharon

Co-Developing a Learning Health System with People with Lived/Living Experience of Substance Use: a response to the toxic drug poisoning crisis

Principal investigatorHRBC2023Scholar Award

Principal investigators: Karsten, Sharon

Cultural Mapping Lived/Living Experiences of the Opioid Crisis in BC's Small Cities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Garrett-Petts, William F.

Keywords: cultural mapping; participatory mapping; vernacular theory; rhetorical theory; cultural planning

$91,679

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.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Karsten, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Patient-oriented research: An essential driver of learning health system capacity development." (2024), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your HRBC-funded project "Walking Together: Strengthening Peer Leadership in Island Health towards a reduction in stigma and improvements in health services for people at the heart of the toxic drug crisis" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]