Dr. Bernie Pauly
About Bernie
Dr. Bernie Pauly is a Professor in the School of Nursing, a Scientist with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and a University of Victoria Community Engaged Scholar. Her research focuses on the promotion of health equity at the intersection of substance use and homelessness in collaboration with communities impacted by health inequities. Her research has informed provincial, regional, and national harm reduction policies in nursing, housing and healthcare including National Operational Guidance for Managed Alcohol Programs. She is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and an international collaborator with Salvation Army Centre for Addictions Services and Research at the University of Stirling (Scotland) and the Australian MAP Protocol Steering Committee. For her work and contributions, she has received numerous awards including the Canadian Public Health Association Ron Draper Health Promotion Award, Nurse and Nurse Practitioner Association of BC: Excellence in Advancing Nursing Knowledge and Research Award, a BC Reconciliation Award and BC Community Achievement Award and Phillip Owen Award for Excellence in Policy Research.Projects
- A mixed methods evaluation of safer supply initiatives to reduce illicit drug overdose in BC
- An evaluation of the impact of the Sudbury Managed Alcohol Program
- An evaluation of the Kwae Kii Win Centre alcohol management program, Thunder Bay, Ontario
- A Scoping Review and Developing a Continuum of Safer Supply Models
- A study of unintended consequences of increased minimum alcohol prices in a population of street involved alcohol dependent drinkers
- BC Co/Lab
- Cannabis Substitution of Alcohol as a Component of Managed Alcohol Programs: Pilot Intervention and Evaluation
- Decolonizing and Reorienting Health Systems Towards Health Equity: The xaȼqanaǂ ʔitkiniǂ (Many Ways of Working on the Same Thing) Research project
- Disseminating drug checking results in response to the overdose crisis
- Drug checking: Engaged research on implementations in response to overdose
- Drug checking: Enhancing scalability to effect systems change
- Equity lens in public health (ELPH) reducing health inequities: The contribution of core public health services in BC
- Evaluation of the Victoria SAFER program
- Feasibility check: Expansion of drug checking to reach people who use alone and reduce overdose in private residences
- Managed alcohol and cannabis substitution: A feasibility study
- P2P: Peer 2 Peer Support
- Perspectives of People who use Drugs on Safer Supply: A concept mapping study
- Pilot evaluation of a BC managed alcohol program
- Preventing and reducing harms of substance use in homeless shelter programs
- Provincial peer network evaluation
- Realizing the Right to Housing: The Housing Justice Project
- Reducing alcohol-related harm for people experiencing homelessness and housing instability during COVID19: A Vancouver Island case study
- Reducing Stigma in Primary Care
- Strengthening the foundation of the home: Developing staff wellness strategies in Indigenous alcohol harm reduction services
- Supporting successful implementation of public health interventions: a realist synthesis
- The Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Studies (CMAPS)
- The Mothering Co/Lab
- Youth Experiences Project: Police discretion with youth who use illicit substances
Publications
- "There is a Place”: impacts of managed alcohol programs for people experiencing severe alcohol dependence and homelessness
- A Brief on Methodology: Using Proximity Analysis to Study the Impact of Substance Use Services On Local Neighborhoods
- A concept mapping study of service user design of safer supply as an alternative to the illicit drug market
- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Canadian Managed Alcohol Program
- Addressing health inequities through social inclusion: The role of community organizations
- Advancing patient-centered care for structurally vulnerable drug-using populations: a qualitative study of the perspectives of people who use drugs regarding the potential integration of harm reduction interventions into hospitals
- Applicability of a national strategy for patient-oriented research to people who use(d) substances: a Canadian experience
- Approaches to evaluation of homelessness interventions
- A Public Health Guide to Developing a Community Overdose Response Plan
- Breaking the cycle of survival drinking: insights from a non-residential, peer-initiated and peer-run managed alcohol program
- Canadian harm reduction policies: A comparative content analysis of provincial and territorial documents, 2000–2015
- Canadian Operational Guidance: Managed Alcohol Programs
- Close to the street: Nursing care for people marginalized by homelessness and substance use
- Co/Lab Campbell River Community Report: Piloting equity-oriented Monitoring for Substance Use and Health in British Columbia Communities
- Co/Lab Substance Use Monitoring Framework: Equity-Oriented Monitoring of Substance Use and Health (Overview)
- Community dental clinics in British Columbia, Canada: Examining the potential as health equity interventions
- Community managed alcohol programs in Canada: Overview of key dimensions and implementation
- Counting the cold ones: A comparison of methods measuring total alcohol consumption of managed alcohol program participants
- Creating culturally safe care in hospital settings for people who use(d) illicit drugs (PDF 675kb)
- Critical considerations for the practical utility of health equity tools: a concept mapping study
- Death is a social justice issue: Perspectives on equity-informed palliative care
- Direct observation as evidence
- Disrupting Standard Mode: A Big Picture Story of Family Inclusion in Substance Use Services
- Disruption as opportunity: Impacts of an organizational health equity intervention in primary care clinics
- Does managing the consumption of people with severe alcohol dependence reduce harm? A comparison of participants in six Canadian managed alcohol programs with locally recruited controls
- Doing community-based research during dual public health emergencies (COVID and overdose)
- Do managed alcohol programs change patterns of alcohol consumption and reduce related harm? A pilot study
- Effect of Risk Mitigation Guidance opioid and stimulant dispensations on mortality and acute care visits during dual public health emergencies: retrospective cohort study
- Equity in public health standards: A qualitative document analysis of policies from two Canadian provinces
- Ethics and Canadian health care
- Evaluating Effectiveness of Alcohol Harm Reduction and Housing Instability (PPT) (PDF 1mb)
- Evaluation of a managed alcohol program in Vancouver, BC: Early findings and reflections on alcohol harm reduction
- Evaluation of risk mitigation measures for people with substance use disorders to address the dual public health crises of COVID-19 and overdose in British Columbia: a mixed-method study protocol
- Every Washroom: De facto consumption sites in the epicenter of an overdose public health emergency
- Everywhere and for everyone: proportionate universalism as a framework for equitable access to community drug checking
- Evidence brief: Harm reduction implementation framework (HRIF)
- Evidence Brief: Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs
- Evidence Brief: Supervised Consumption Sites are Necessary Public Health Services
- Facing homelessness: Greater Victoria Report on Housing & Supports 2012/13
- Facing homelessness data supplement for 2012/13 report on housing and supports
- Factors associated with 60-day adherence to “safer supply” opioids prescribed under British Columbia's interim clinical guidance for health care providers to support people who use drugs during COVID-19 and the ongoing overdose emergency
- Factors Associated with Nonfatal Overdose During a Public Health Emergency
- Factors associated with public injection and nonfatal overdose among people who inject drugs in street-based settings
- Fading vision: Knowledge translation in the implementation of public health policy intervention
- Finding safety: A pilot study of Managed Alcohol Program participants' perceptions of housing and quality of life
- Framing the issues: Moral distress in healthcare
- From one ally to another: Pratice guidelines to better include people who use drugs at your decision-making tables
- Harm reduction and currently illegal drugs: Implications for nursing policy, practice, research and education
- Harm reduction in name, but not substance: a comparative analysis of current Canadian provincial and territorial policy frameworks
- Harm reduction through a social justice lens- Homeless Hub research summary series
- Health equity-oriented approaches to inform responses to opioid overdoses: a scoping review protocol
- Homelessness outcome reporting normative framework: Systems- level evaluation of progress in ending homelessness
- Housing and harm reduction: A policy framework for Greater Victoria (PDF 975kb)
- Housing and harm reduction: What is the role of harm reduction in addressing homelessness?
- How do people with homelessness and alcohol dependence cope when alcohol is unaffordable? A comparison of residents of Canadian managed alcohol programs and locally recruited controls
- How Equity-Oriented Health Care Affects Health: Key Mechanisms and Implications for Primary Health Care Practice and Polic
- Hungry and Homeless in Victoria: Fitting the pieces together, Greater Victoria report on housing and supports 2011
- Impact: A case study examining the closure of a large urban fixed site needle exchange in Canada
- Impact of overdose prevention sites during a public health emergency in Victoria, Canada
- Implementation of pharmaceutical alternatives to a toxic drug supply in British Columbia: A mixed methods study
- Implementation of risk mitigation prescribing during dual public health emergencies: A qualitative study among Indigenous people who use drugs and health planners in Northern British Columbia, Canada
- Implementing an integrated multi‐technology platform for drug checking: Social, scientific, and technological considerations
- Including people who experience homelessness: A scoping review of the literature
- Intersectionality, social justice and influencing policy
- Investigating the need for alcohol harm reduction and managed alcohol programs for people experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorders in Scotland
- Just have this come from their prescription pad: the medicalization of safer supply from the perspectives of health planners in BC, Canada
- Legalization of Cannabis in Canada: Implementation strategies and public health
- Managed Alcohol Programs: An Innovative and Evidence-Based Solution for Adults with Severe Alcohol Use Disorder Who Are Experiencing Homelessness
- Managed alcohol programs: Is it time for a more radical approach to reduce harms for people experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorders?
- Managed alcohol programs in the context of Housing First
- Moral distress: Tensions as a spring board for action
- Navigating conflicting value systems: a grounded theory of the process of public health equity work in the context of mental health promotion and prevention of harms of substance use
- Needle exchange as a safe haven in an unsafe world
- No Vacancy: Affordability & Homelessness in Vancouver
- One night only: Report of those staying in temporary accommodation in Greater Victoria: Facility count 2014
- On the outside looking in: Finding a place for managed alcohol programs in the harm reduction movement
- Organizational support for frontline harm reduction and systems navigation work among workers with living and lived experience: qualitative findings from British Columbia, Canada
- Our theoretical landscape: Complimentary approaches to health care ethics
- Patterns of homelessness in Greater Victoria
- Perceived harms and harm reduction strategies among people who drink non-beverage alcohol: Community-based qualitative research in Vancouver, Canada
- Practice brief: Implementing the Victoria SAFER Initiative
- Practice Brief: Infrastructure for Harm Reduction in Residential and Hotel Settings
- Prescribed safer supply during dual public health emergencies: a qualitative study examining service providers perspectives on early implementation
- Providing a safe place: Adopting a cultural safety perspective in the care of Aboriginal women living with HIV/AIDS
- Quiet crisis: Homelessness and at-risk in Greater Victoria (PDF 2mb)
- Reducing health inequities: The contribution of core public health services in BC
- Scale up of Managed Alcohol Programs
- Searching for ethical leadership in nursing
- Sheltering risks: Implementation of harm reduction in homeless shelters during an overdose emergency
- Situational Analysis for Complex Systems: Methodological Development in Public Health Research
- Sowing a Seed of Safety: Providing Culturally Safe Care in Acute Care Settings for People who use Drugs
- Strategies to end homelessness: Current approaches to evaluation
- Substance Use Education in Canadian Nursing Programs: A Student Survey
- Supporting successful implementation of public health interventions: Protocol for a realist synthesis
- Take me to my leader: The importance of ethical leadership among formal nurse leaders
- Taking a leap of faith: Meaningful participation of people with experiences of homelessness in solutions to address homelessness
- The Cost of Caring: Compassion Fatigue among Peer Overdose Response Workers in British Columbia
- The cycle of impossibility: Pathways into and out of family homelessness
- The implementation of overdose prevention sites as a novel and nimble response during an illegal drug overdose public health emergency
- The multiple and intersecting stigmas of homelessness
- The North American opioid crisis: evidence and nuance on prescribed safer supply
- The potential impacts of community drug checking within the overdose crisis: qualitative study exploring the perspective of prospective service users
- Toward Cultural Safety: Nurse and Patient Percepitons of Illicit Substance Use in a Hospitalized Setting
- Towards alcohol harm reduction and housing stability: Preliminary findings of Thunder Bay managed alcohol programs (PDF 645kb)
- Trajectories of Alcohol Use and Related Harms for Managed Alcohol Program Participants over 12 Months Compared with Local Controls: A Quasi-Experimental Study
- Translating the lived experience of illicit drinkers into program guidance for cannabis substitution: Experiences from the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study
- Turning a blind eye: implementation of harm reduction in a transitional programme setting
- Values are not enough: qualitative study identifying critical elements for prioritization of health equity in health systems
- Victoria Cool Aid Society Community Health Centre: Social, political, and historical context
- Vulnerable populations and nursing: Vulnerability as a health equity concern
- What is needed for implementing drug checking services in the context of the overdose crisis? A qualitative study to explore perspectives of potential service users
- What We Heard: Co/Lab Community Dialogues Trends and Recommendations for Action on the Toxic Drug Emergency
- Where’s the CASH (Centralized Access to Supported Housing)?: Evaluation of a Single Point of Access to Supported Housing
- Where’s the Housing? Housing and Income Outcomes of a Transitional Program to End Homelessness
- Working and waiting: Homeless drinkers responses to less affordable alcohol
- Young People Who Use Drugs Views Toward the Power and Authority of Police Officers
- ‘It’s like a safety haven’: considerations for the implementation of managed alcohol programs in Scotland
- ‘Peer’ work as precarious: A qualitative study of work conditions and experiences of people who use drugs engaged in harm reduction work
- ‘We are the first responders’: overdose response experiences and perspectives among peers in British Columbia
- “Accidental Intimacies”: Reconsidering Bodily Encounters Between Police and Young People Who Use Drugs
- “Give me the reigns of taking care of myself with a home”: Healing environments in an Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction program
- “Give me the reigns of taking care of myself with a home”: Healing environments in an Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction program
- “If I knew I could get that every hour instead of alcohol, I would take the cannabis”: need and feasibility of cannabis substitution implementation in Canadian managed alcohol programs
- “If it wasn’t for them, I don’t think I would be here”: experiences of the first year of a safer supply program during the dual public health emergencies of COVID-19 and the drug toxicity crisis
- “I have such a hard time hitting myself, I thought it’d be easier”: perspectives of hospitalized patients on injecting drugs into vascular access devices
- “It's like super structural” – Overdose experiences of youth who use drugs and police in three non-metropolitan cities across British Columbia
- “Just too busy living in the moment and surviving”: barriers to accessing health care for structurally vulnerable populations at end-of-life
- “The health equity curse”: ethical tensions in promoting health equity
- “There are solutions and I think we're still working in the problem”: The limitations of decriminalization under the good Samaritan drug overdose act and lessons from an evaluation in British Columbia, Canada