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Geoff Bardwell

ResearcherSchool of Public Health SciencesUniversity of Waterloo

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Geoff Bardwell

Researcher

School of Public Health Sciences

Health Sciences

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
26 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 15 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (5 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Community Health Drug Use Policing Community-Based Research Harm Reduction Hcv Hiv Northern And Smaller Urban Communities

Latest papers

Substance use disorder in forensic hospitals: A scoping review of practices and interventions.
Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026 · senior author
How have liberalized drug policies impacted international policing practices across urban and rural jurisdictions? A scoping review.
The International journal on drug policy · 2026 · senior author
What can feminist relational discourse analysis offer the field of drug policy?
The International journal on drug policy · 2026 · senior author

All 26 publications

Latest funding

Thrive: CBR Team Grant to Strengthen STBBI-Related Health Equity for People Who Use Drugs including those who Have Experienced Incarceration in Small to Medium Urban, Rural and Remote Communities in British Columbia
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$1,000,000
Advancing HIV, STBBI Health Equity through Substance Use Health: A Pan-Canadian Research, Knowledge Translation and Capacity Building Network
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$992,626
Advancing HIV, STBBI Health Equity through Substance Use Health: A Pan-Canadian Research, Knowledge Translation and Capacity Building Network
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,000,000

All 13 grants and awards

26 publications.

Substance use disorder in forensic hospitals: A scoping review of practices and interventions.

Mauer-Vakil D, Pereira E, Canning C, Le Foll B, Bardwell G

Drug and alcohol dependence reports2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.dadr.2026.100465 PMID: 42597790

How have liberalized drug policies impacted international policing practices across urban and rural jurisdictions? A scoping review.

Jurkus M, Castañeda J, Strike C, Law J, Jayathilake A, Perlman CM, Bardwell G

The International journal on drug policy2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105249 PMID: 41903483

What can feminist relational discourse analysis offer the field of drug policy?

Jayathilake A, Ivsins A, Neufeld H, Jurkus M, Bardwell G

The International journal on drug policy2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105203 PMID: 41713115

A scoping review of the association between the built environment and overdose mortality.

Jurkus M, Hoolsema S, Crooks VA, Schuurman N, Slaunwhite A, Bardwell G

Drug and alcohol dependence2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112925 PMID: 41151354

Mapping socio-spatial contexts of drug use and service access: A community-based rapid ethnography in Northern Ontario, Canada.

Tucker L, Ibáñez-Carasco F, Legault B, Cameron D, Michaud J, Seguin G, Jurkus M, Pelland K, Eisenhauer H, Bardwell G

Health & place2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2025.103570 PMID: 41218577

Stable patterns, shifting risks: the impact of British Columbia's decriminalization and recriminalization policies on drug use behaviours.

Ali F, Mende-Gibson J, Russell C, Torres-Salbach S, Bardwell G, Bonn M, Budau J, Ivsins A, Rehm J

Harm reduction journal2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-025-01322-9 PMID: 41088347

The potential use of digital technologies to enhance opioid agonist treatment in rural and remote communities of British Columbia, Canada.

Jayathilake A, Hodgson K, Mansoor M, Markel K, Bardwell G

Harm reduction journal2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-025-01302-z PMID: 41063180

Necropolitics of the North: A rapid ethnography examining the effects of the closure of one of Northern Ontario's only supervised consumption sites.

Tucker L, Ibanez-Carasco F, Legault B, Cameron D, Michaud J, Seguin G, Groot E, Jayathilake A, Pelland K, Fritz A, Eisenhauer H, Bardwell G

The International journal on drug policy2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104869 PMID: 40483912

Experiences of stigmatization among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's drug decriminalization policy: A qualitative study.

Ali F, Russell C, Torres-Salbach S, Lo M, Bonn M, Bardwell G, Budau J, Hyshka E, Rehm J

The International journal on drug policy2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104791 PMID: 40188704

Paradigms, values, assumptions and debates regarding 'proper' qualitative research.

Bardwell G

Canadian journal of rural medicine : the official journal of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada = Journal canadien de la medecine rurale : le journal officiel de la Societe de medecine rurale du Canada2025First author

DOI: 10.4103/cjrm.cjrm_88_24 PMID: 40052780

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Community Health Dear Professor Bardwell, 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 "Substance use disorder in forensic hospitals: A scoping review of practices and interventions." (2026), 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 CIHR-funded project "Thrive: CBR Team Grant to Strengthen STBBI-Related Health Equity for People Who Use Drugs including those who Have Experienced Incarceration in Small to Medium Urban, Rural and Remote Communities in British Columbia" (2025), 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]

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Geoff Bardwell

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Substance use disorder in forensic hospitals: A scoping review of practices and interventions.

How have liberalized drug policies impacted international policing practices across urban and rural jurisdictions? A scoping review.

What can feminist relational discourse analysis offer the field of drug policy?

A scoping review of the association between the built environment and overdose mortality.

Mapping socio-spatial contexts of drug use and service access: A community-based rapid ethnography in Northern Ontario, Canada.

Stable patterns, shifting risks: the impact of British Columbia's decriminalization and recriminalization policies on drug use behaviours.

The potential use of digital technologies to enhance opioid agonist treatment in rural and remote communities of British Columbia, Canada.

Necropolitics of the North: A rapid ethnography examining the effects of the closure of one of Northern Ontario's only supervised consumption sites.

Experiences of stigmatization among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's drug decriminalization policy: A qualitative study.

Paradigms, values, assumptions and debates regarding 'proper' qualitative research.

Frequent collaborators

Andrew Ivsins

Thomas Kerr

Elaine Hyshka

Farihah Ali

Carol Strike

Jade Boyd

Karen Urbanoski

Gillian Kolla

Pierre-julien Coulaud

Kate Salters

Hannah Neufeld

Amanda Slaunwhite

Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira

Christopher Canning

Bernard Le Foll

Mohammad Karamouzian

Bernadette Pauly

David Tu

Adrian Guta

Tara Gomes

Christopher Perlman