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Akwasi Owusu-Bempah
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Latest funding
- $378,676
The effectiveness of oral cannabis extracts for osteoarthritic pain: an internal pilot, placebo controlled, blinded randomized trial
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $20,000
Decriminalization of Drugs: A Community-Based Systems Approach to Planning for Evaluation
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $1,560,600
The Toronto Disparities, Overdose, and Treatment (T-DOT) Study: Investigating clinical outcomes among people who inject drugs during a period of rapid programmatic and policy change
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
The effectiveness of oral cannabis extracts for osteoarthritic pain: an internal pilot, placebo controlled, blinded randomized trial
Principal investigators: Clarke, Hance A; Balneaves, Lynda G; Fitzcharles, Mary-Ann; Karkouti, Keyvan; Kotra, Lakshmi P; Ladha, Karim
Keywords: Cannabinoid Based Medicine; Internal Pilot Study; Medical Cannabis; Osteoarthritis; Pain; Randomized Controlled Trial
Decriminalization of Drugs: A Community-Based Systems Approach to Planning for Evaluation
Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M; Dodd, Zoe; Firestone, Michelle
Keywords: Community-Based Research; Criminalization; Decriminalization; Policy Evaluation; Substance Use; System Dynamics; Systems Mapping
The Toronto Disparities, Overdose, and Treatment (T-DOT) Study: Investigating clinical outcomes among people who inject drugs during a period of rapid programmatic and policy change
Principal investigators: Werb, Daniel M
Keywords: Clinical Outcomes; Drug Decriminalization; Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment; Overdose; People Who Inject Drugs; Safer Supply; Spatial Analysis
Understanding the experiences and complex needs of people who use cannabis and live with mental health issues
Principal investigators: Rueda, Sergio; Hamilton, Hayley A; Sockalingam, Sanjeev
Keywords: Cannabis; Immigrant, Refugee, Ethnocultural And Racialized Populations; Mental Health; Qualitative Methods
Identifying and mitigating bias in machine learning models used in population health
Principal investigators: Pinto, Andrew D
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Bias; Equity; Guideline Development; Health Inequities; Machine Learning; Model Development; Population Health; Public Health
Provincial and key community responses to federal cannabis legalization: A multi-jurisdictional study
Principal investigators: Rueda, Sergio; Hyshka, Elaine
Keywords: Cannabis Legalization; Multi-Jurisdictional Study; Public Health Impacts; Qualitative Methods
Alarming Rates of Incarceration among Canadian Aboriginals: Sharing findings and taking action
Principal investigators: Mills, Edward J
Keywords: Aboriginal; Criminology; Demography; Public Health
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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