Dr. Bruce Wallace
Bruce Wallace is a scientist with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and a professor with UVic's School of Social Work and the Co-Chair of the Pacific Housing Research Network (PHRN). His research focuses on substance use and harm reduction, poverty and homelessness and access to health care, including dental care. He is an engaged scholar with many years of community-based research in Victoria employing health equity and social justice approaches to his projects. He was recently awarded the Victoria Community Leadership Award and the 番茄社区 Provost’s Advocacy and Activism Award.
Bruce’s research has been responsive to the illicit drug overdose emergency in BC as he co-leads several research initiatives including analysis of the implementation and impacts of the novel overdose prevention sites established in Victoria BC and a drug checking pilot project and evaluation. Bruce teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate social work program, currently teaching policy and research courses.
Projects
- BC Co/Lab
- Disseminating drug checking results in response to the overdose crisis
- Drug Checking: A new tool in the toolbox
- Drug checking: Engaged research on implementations in response to overdose
- Drug checking: Enhancing scalability to effect systems change
- Drug user knowledge and drug checking evidence: Knowledge synthesis actions to reduce overdose in Island Health
- Equity lens in public health (ELPH) reducing health inequities: The contribution of core public health services in BC
- Feasibility check: Expansion of drug checking to reach people who use alone and reduce overdose in private residences
- Implementing innovations in drug checking: A harm reduction pilot in response to illicit drug overdose
- Integrating a low-barrier drug checking platform into public health responses to overdose
- Managed alcohol and cannabis substitution: A feasibility study
- Preventing and reducing harms of substance use in homeless shelter programs
- Reducing Stigma in Primary Care
- Spectroscopy for the masses: Training the community to operate drug-checking technologies as a response to the overdose crisis
- Vancouver Island Drug Checking Project
- Working together: evaluating an integrated model of care for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems