Erika Dyck, University of Saskatchewan

Research

Health Equity Accessibility Anti-Racism Culturally Safe Care Decolonization Equity Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Psychedelics

Latest papers

Completing the Circle: A History of Psychedelics and Harm Reduction.
Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2026 · first author
Co-occurrence of depression, anxiety and increased alcohol use during the late stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan, Canada: a cross-sectional survey.
BMJ public health · 2025 · senior author
The Canada Health Act and Mental Health and Addiction Services.
HealthcarePapers · 2025 · first author

All 15 publications

Latest funding

Beyond Economic Evaluations: Understanding the Collective Decision-Making Process in Land Management in First Nations Communities in Canada
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
$99,721
Psychedelic Harm Reduction: Festivals
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$410,718
Migrations and Gatherings in the West: Western Canadian History Conference 2024
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$48,481

All 17 grants and awards

15 publications.

01

Completing the Circle: A History of Psychedelics and Harm Reduction.

Dyck E, Dixon J

Current topics in behavioral neurosciences2026First author

DOI: 10.1007/7854_2024_511 PMID: 39112810

02

Co-occurrence of depression, anxiety and increased alcohol use during the late stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan, Canada: a cross-sectional survey.

Muhajarine N, Dixon J, Ahmed MS, Bukhari A, Clifford J, Adeyinka DA, Novotna G, Dyck E

BMJ public health2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-000965 PMID: 40017964

03

The Canada Health Act and Mental Health and Addiction Services.

Dyck E

HealthcarePapers2025First author

DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2025.27534 PMID: 40116249

04

Editorial: Psychedelic humanities.

Noorani T, Davis O, Dymock A, Langlitz N, Schlag AK, Dyck E

Frontiers in psychology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1474064 PMID: 39233887

05

A history and future of psychedelics: The case of the Canadian military.

Dyck E, Marchildon GP

Journal of military, veteran and family health2023First author

DOI: 10.3138/jmvfh-2023-0010 PMID: 42533891

06

Capturing and Documenting the Wider Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Remember Rebuild Saskatchewan Initiative: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Interdisciplinary Project.

Muhajarine N, Dixon J, Dyck E, Clifford J, Chassé P, Gupta SD, Christopherson-Cote C, Remember Rebuild Saskatchewan Team

JMIR research protocols2023

DOI: 10.2196/46643 PMID: 37279056

07

Tune in, Turn on: Religious Music and Spiritual Power in the History of Psychedelic Therapy.

Lett S, Dyck E

Social history of medicine : the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkac057 PMID: 37398847

08

Moral Psychopharmacology Needs Moral Inquiry: The Case of Psychedelics.

Langlitz N, Dyck E, Scheidegger M, Repantis D

Frontiers in psychiatry2021

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.680064 PMID: 34408677

09

Doing history that matters: Going public and activating voices as a form of historical activism.

Dyck E

Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences2021First author

DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.22069 PMID: 33200841

10

New Social History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals.

Dyck E, Charles A

Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine2021First author

DOI: 10.3138/cbmh.38.s1.intro PMID: 34813416

Beyond Economic Evaluations: Understanding the Collective Decision-Making Process in Land Management in First Nations Communities in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Heales, Kylie

$99,721

Psychedelic Harm Reduction: Festivals

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dyck, Erika

$410,718

Migrations and Gatherings in the West: Western Canadian History Conference 2024

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Troupe, Cheryl L.

Keywords: prairies; Indigenous; gender; sexualities; environment; medical history; migration; settler-colonialism; public history; Saskatchewan; Alberta; Manitoba

$48,481

Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning - Diversities, Discourses, and Digitalization

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Urbain, Emilie

Keywords: Language policy; bilingualism; language rights; minorities; diversity; discourse; digitalization; multilingualism

$73,221

Psychedelics and health equity: A public conversation on how to make the psychedelic sector in Canada more equitable, accessible, anti-racist and culturally safe.

Nominated PICIHR2023CIHR Café Scientifique Program - Open Pool

Principal investigators: Dyck, Erika E

Keywords: Accessibility; Anti-Racism; Culturally Safe Care; Decolonization; Equity; Health Equity; Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy; Psychedelics; Substance Use; Substance Use Stigma

$8,000

Data and equity needed to drive post-pandemic recovery in Canada: a Saskatchewan contribution

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr.: Addr. Wider Impacts of COVID-Imp. on social/econ/pop iss/pbl outcomes

Principal investigators: Muhajarine, Nazeem; Dyck, Erika E

Keywords: Covid-19; Data Archival; Health Equity; Population Health; Saskatchewan; Social, Cultural And Behavioural Dimensions Of Health

$389,591

Remembering and Rebuilding: Saskatchewan's COVID 19 Public Archive

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Dyck, Erika E.

Keywords: medical history; archival preservation; digital humanities

$199,094

History of Health and Social Justice

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Dyck, Erika

Keywords: history of medicine, pharmacology, addiction, reproductive health, reproductive justice, medicare

$650,000

History of Health and Social Justice

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Dyck, Erika

Keywords: History of medicine; pharmacology; addiction; reproductive health; reproductive justice; medicare; ;

$400,000

Psychoactivity for sale: the global advertising of psychoactive substances, 1886-2001

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Savelli, Mat

Keywords: history of the psy-ences; history of consumerism; psychoactivity; history of medicine; history of psychiatry; history of advertising; globalization

$137,343

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

Community Health and Epidemiology
Social Work

Co-authors at University of Saskatchewan, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Nazeem Muhajarine

Community Health and Epidemiology

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Gabriela Novotna

Social Work

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Health Equity Dear Professor Dyck, 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 "Completing the Circle: A History of Psychedelics and Harm Reduction." (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 SSHRC-funded project "Psychedelic Harm Reduction: Festivals" (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]