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Lynne Leonard

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Assistant ProfessorSchool of Epidemiology and Public HealthUniversity of Ottawa

Lynne Leonard

Assistant Professor

School of Epidemiology and Public Health

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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4 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2016.

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Research

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Harm Reduction Hepatitis C Hiv/Aids Overdose Accepatbility Hiv Counselling And Testing In Hospital Ed Acceptability Hiv Counselling And Testing In Community Venue Feasability Hiv Counselling And Testing In Com Venues Feasability Hiv Counselling And Testing In Hospital Ed

Latest papers

Substance use frequency, device-sharing, and used substances in Canadian prisons: results from Correctional Service Canada's National Health Survey.
International journal of prison health · 2026
"They're all struggling as well": social and economic barriers and facilitators to self-managing chronic illness among marginalized people who use drugs.
International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2022
Photo elicitation to explore health and social exclusion with rooming house residents in Ottawa, Canada.
Health & place · 2022

All 10 publications

Latest funding

CATIE Forum, Transforming our practice: New knowledge, new strategies
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Preventing the spread of HIV: The critical role of addiction treatment services
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$444,073
Checking Out the Drug, Checking In On Life and HIV Prevention: A Community Responds
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$447,000

All 15 grants and awards

10 publications.

Substance use frequency, device-sharing, and used substances in Canadian prisons: results from Correctional Service Canada's National Health Survey.

Filoso D, Wanamaker KA, Gendron MP, Johnson S, Mahboob W, Smith J, Thompson SM, Martin R, Leonard L, Sandstrom P

International journal of prison health2026

DOI: 10.1108/ijoph-03-2025-0023 PMID: 40977525

"They're all struggling as well": social and economic barriers and facilitators to self-managing chronic illness among marginalized people who use drugs.

Boucher LM, Shoemaker ES, Liddy CE, Leonard L, MacPherson PA, Presseau J, Martin A, Pineau D, Lalonde C, Diliso N, Lafleche T, Fitzgerald M, Kendall CE

International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2022

DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2022.2082111 PMID: 35652801

Photo elicitation to explore health and social exclusion with rooming house residents in Ottawa, Canada.

Binch J, Backman C, Dej E, Leonard L, Phillips JC

Health & place2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102866 PMID: 35932596

"The Drug Use Unfortunately isn't all Bad": Chronic Disease Self-Management Complexity and Strategy Among Marginalized People Who Use Drugs.

Boucher LM, Shoemaker ES, Liddy CE, Leonard L, MacPherson PA, Presseau J, Martin A, Pineau D, Lalonde C, Diliso N, Lafleche T, Fitzgerald M, Kendall CE

Qualitative health research2022

DOI: 10.1177/10497323221083353 PMID: 35324352

Telemedicine successfully engages marginalized rural hepatitis C patients in curative care.

Lepage C, Garber G, Corrin R, Galanakis C, Leonard L, Cooper C

Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada2020

DOI: 10.3138/jammi-2019-0025 PMID: 36338186

Human immunodeficiency virus testing and psychosocial outcomes: a scoping review protocol.

Ngobi JB, Pottie K, Leonard L, Tugwell P, Hoffman SJ, Welch V

JBI database of systematic reviews and implementation reports2019

DOI: 10.11124/jbisrir-2017-003864 PMID: 30864981

Support of supervised injection facilities by emergency physicians in Canada.

Katz N, Leonard L, Wiesenfeld L, Perry JJ, Thiruganasambandamoorthy V, Calder L

The International journal on drug policy2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.07.013 PMID: 28886562

Next generation sequencing of the hepatitis C virus NS5B gene reveals potential novel S282 drug resistance mutations.

Ji H, Kozak RA, Biondi MJ, Pilon R, Vallee D, Liang BB, La D, Kim J, Van Domselaar G, Leonard L, Sandstrom P, Brooks J

Virology2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.12.037 PMID: 25600207

Transmission patterns of HIV and hepatitis C virus among networks of people who inject drugs.

Pilon R, Leonard L, Kim J, Vallee D, De Rubeis E, Jolly AM, Wylie J, Pelude L, Sandstrom P

PloS one2011

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022245 PMID: 21799802

"I inject less as I have easier access to pipes": injecting, and sharing of crack-smoking materials, decline as safer crack-smoking resources are distributed.

Leonard L, DeRubeis E, Pelude L, Medd E, Birkett N, Seto J

The International journal on drug policy2008First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2007.02.008 PMID: 18502378

CATIE Forum, Transforming our practice: New knowledge, new strategies

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Rogers, Timothy M

Keywords: Hepatitis C; Hiv; Programming

$20,000

Preventing the spread of HIV: The critical role of addiction treatment services

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Operating Grant - HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General

Principal investigators: Jackson, Lois A; MacIsaac, Cynthia P

Keywords: Addiction Treatment Services; Barriers To Services; Community-Based Research; Facilitators To Services; Harm Reduction; Hiv/Aids Prevention; People Who Use Drugs

$444,073

Checking Out the Drug, Checking In On Life and HIV Prevention: A Community Responds

Nominated PICIHR2016Operating Grant - HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General

Principal investigators: Leonard, Lynne E; Boyd, Rob; Chepesiuk, Caleb

Keywords: Harm Reduction; Hepatitis C; Hiv/Aids; Overdose

$447,000

National Deliberative Dialogue on Reaching the HIV Undiagnosed: Scaling up effective programming approaches to HIV Testing and Linkage to Prevention and Care

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Canadian Aids Treatment, Information Exchange

Keywords: Hiv Testing; Hiv/Aids; Implemenation Science; Knowledge Exchange

$15,000

The Ontario Integrated Supervised Injection Services Research Program: Examining Uptake and Impacts in Different Community Settings and Models of Care

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Rourke, Sean B; Baral, Stefan D; Garber, Gary E

Keywords: Health Service Research; Injection Drug Use; Safe Injection Facilities; Supervised Injection Services

$646,424

Increasing the Offer, Shifting the Offer: Adapting, Evaluating and Recommending Strategies to Engage with Persons Unaware of their Positive HIV Status

Nominated PICIHR2015HIV Implementation Science - Component 1

Principal investigators: Leonard, Lynne E; Boyd, Rob; Ricketts, Maura

Keywords: Accepatbility Hiv Counselling And Testing In Hospital Ed; Acceptability Hiv Counselling And Testing In Community Venue; Feasability Hiv Counselling And Testing In Com Venues; Feasability Hiv Counselling And Testing In Hospital Ed; Improving Access To Hiv Counselling And Testing; Increasing Access To Hiv Care; Point-Of-Care Testing Models; Provider-Initiatited Hiv Counselling And Testing; Rapid Hiv Testing Models; Reducing Incidence Hiv

$149,800

CIHR Centre for REACH in HIV/AIDS

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Centres for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and other STBBIs Research

Principal investigators: Rourke, Sean B; Bacon, Jean; Jones, Jennifer E; Mcgee, Frank; Monteith, Kenneth M; Panessa, Ciro; Plourde, Pierre; Tharao, Wangari E; Visser, Florentius; Wong, Thomas; Adam, Barry D; Becker, Marissa; Gahagan, Jacqueline C; Garber, Gary E; Gill, Michael J; Husbands, Winston C; Ibanez-Carrasco, Francisco; Jackson, Lois A; Kirkland, Susan A; Krentz, Hartmut; Mignone, Javier J; Otis, Joanne; Worthington, Catherine A

Keywords: Evaluation; Hiv/Aids; Interdisciplinary Network; Knoweldge Transfer And Exchange; Population Health; Program Science; Social Determinants Of Health

$4,773,240

Harm Reduction: Mobilizing Evidence to Support Policy and Practice

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Knowledge Synthesis Grant

Principal investigators: Wilson, Michael G; Bowlby, Anne; Shore, Ronald J; Tyndall, Mark W

Keywords: Drug Use; Harm Reduction; Hepatitis C; Hiv; Systematic Reviews

$90,485

Cross-Canada best practice recommendations for harm reduction programs - research evidence syntheses and dissemination

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant - HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General

Principal investigators: Strike, Carol J; Hopkins, Shaun M

Keywords: Best Practice Recommendations; Community-Based Research; Harm Reduction; Hiv Prevention; Injection Drug Users

$172,685

HIV prevention for people who use drugs - a cross Canada meeting to plan the research project

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: HIV/AIDS

Principal investigators: Strike, Carol J; Hopkins, Shaun M

Keywords: Community-Based Research; Harm Reduction; Hiv Prevention Programs; Research Planning

$24,995

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

Profile data last refreshed on September 25, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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Lynne Leonard

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Substance use frequency, device-sharing, and used substances in Canadian prisons: results from Correctional Service Canada's National Health Survey.

"They're all struggling as well": social and economic barriers and facilitators to self-managing chronic illness among marginalized people who use drugs.

Photo elicitation to explore health and social exclusion with rooming house residents in Ottawa, Canada.

"The Drug Use Unfortunately isn't all Bad": Chronic Disease Self-Management Complexity and Strategy Among Marginalized People Who Use Drugs.

Telemedicine successfully engages marginalized rural hepatitis C patients in curative care.

Human immunodeficiency virus testing and psychosocial outcomes: a scoping review protocol.

Support of supervised injection facilities by emergency physicians in Canada.

Next generation sequencing of the hepatitis C virus NS5B gene reveals potential novel S282 drug resistance mutations.

Transmission patterns of HIV and hepatitis C virus among networks of people who inject drugs.

"I inject less as I have easier access to pipes": injecting, and sharing of crack-smoking materials, decline as safer crack-smoking resources are distributed.

CATIE Forum, Transforming our practice: New knowledge, new strategies

Preventing the spread of HIV: The critical role of addiction treatment services

Checking Out the Drug, Checking In On Life and HIV Prevention: A Community Responds

National Deliberative Dialogue on Reaching the HIV Undiagnosed: Scaling up effective programming approaches to HIV Testing and Linkage to Prevention and Care

The Ontario Integrated Supervised Injection Services Research Program: Examining Uptake and Impacts in Different Community Settings and Models of Care

Increasing the Offer, Shifting the Offer: Adapting, Evaluating and Recommending Strategies to Engage with Persons Unaware of their Positive HIV Status

CIHR Centre for REACH in HIV/AIDS

Harm Reduction: Mobilizing Evidence to Support Policy and Practice

Cross-Canada best practice recommendations for harm reduction programs - research evidence syntheses and dissemination

HIV prevention for people who use drugs - a cross Canada meeting to plan the research project

Frequent collaborators

Justin Presseau

Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy

Chantal Backman

Gary Garber

Lisa Calder

Kevin Pottie

Peter Tugwell

Curtis Cooper

Vivian Welch