Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Trevor Goodyear is a graduate student in the Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Public Health program at the University of British Columbia. Through his master’s thesis and upcoming doctoral studies, he is engaged in equity-promoting research with people who use drugs and, particularly, with youth and 2SLGBTQ+ people who use drugs. Trevor prioritizes approaches to research that centre people with lived experience, and that draw attention to the ways in which socio-structural conditions influence access to health and healthcare.
Trevor is a graduate research assistant with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, and is also a youth mental health nurse at BC Children’s Hospital.
Drug overdoses in public bathrooms are common: new tools could prevent harm and improve response
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The drug poisoning crisis in Canada is at its worst in British Columbia, with over 10,000 lives lost since 2016. A key setting for overdoses in B.C. is bathrooms, though this information has not always been readily...
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