Additional Affiliations
- Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Person-Centered Care in Addiction and Public Health
January 23, 2023
Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes obtained her degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Cordoba (Argentina), a PhD in Social Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Methodology in Spain, and postdoctoral studies at the Andalusian School of Public Health.
In addition to her CHÉOS Scientist affiliation, she is a Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Population and Public Health and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Person-Centered Care in Addiction and Public Health.
Read Less Read MoreHer main research area is public health and addictions, with a focus on testing alternative approaches to expand and diversify treatments for vulnerable populations.
She is currently part of several Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded grants; formerly co-investigator of North America’s first heroin-assisted treatment trial, the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI); and formerly the principal investigator of the Study to Assess Long-Term Opioid Maintenance Effectiveness (SALOME), a randomized clinical trial that tested innovative treatments for severe, long-term opioid dependency. She is also the principal investigator of the GeMa (Gender Matters) study, which evaluates gender patterns of drug use, access to care, and health among long-term opioid users; a co-investigator of The Cedar Project, a cohort of young Aboriginal people using drugs; and the principal investigator of the Program of Outcomes Research on Treatment with Injectables for Addiction (PORTIA).
The first Evidence Speaks of 2023 features mask mandate effectiveness, client preferences for iOAT delivery, and patient-reported outcomes following hysterectomy
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Drs. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes and Anne Gadermann recently received support from the BC Knowledge Development Fund
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CHÉOS Scientists are leading three of the projects funded in this round, plus a further eleven projects are supported by CHÉOS Scientists as co-investigators.
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