Kate Vallance

About Kate

Kate Vallance has been a research associate at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research since 2009. During that time she has worked in coordination and management of a wide variety of alcohol and other drug research projects at both the local and national level. These projects include the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring Project, the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study, evaluations of alcohol policy implementation across Canadian jurisdictions, effectiveness of alcohol warning labels in the northern territories as well as emergency department monitoring, municipal alcohol policy evaluations and a number of others. She has also been involved in developing CISUR’s social media platforms and a range of different knowledge translation resources.  She completed her Master of Arts degree in Sociology at the University of Victoria in 2009.

Projects

• 2016 Greater Victoria unsheltered and sheltered point-in-time count substance use survey
• Alcohol, energy drinks and other stimulants: An emergency room study assessing the effects of gender, context and substance use on injury risk
• 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 study of unintended consequences of increased minimum alcohol prices in a population of street involved alcohol dependent drinkers
• Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation
• Effects of COVID-19 on alcohol and cannabis sales and alcohol- and cannabis-related hospitalizations and deaths in BC
• Municipal alcohol policies in BC: exploring best practices
• Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study
• Pilot evaluation of a BC managed alcohol program
• Resources to support municipal leaders in decision-making related to the unsupervised public consumption of alcohol on municipal properties
• Stakeholder evaluation of impacts of a national alcohol policy implementation review across all provinces and territories

Publications

• "There is a Place”: impacts of managed alcohol programs for people experiencing severe alcohol dependence and homelessness
• Adolescent substance use and related harms in British Columbia (PDF 524kb)
• Alcohol retail privatisation in Canadian provinces between 2012 and 2017. Is decision making oriented to harm reduction?
• An examination of injection drug use trends in Victoria and Vancouver, BC after the closure of Victoria's only fixed-site needle and syringe programme
• A ‘standard joint’? The role of quantity in predicting cannabis-related problems
• Baseline Assessment of Alcohol-Related Knowledge of and Support for Alcohol Warning Labels Among Alcohol Consumers in Northern Canada and Associations With Key Sociodemographic Characteristics
• Book chapter: Lessons learned from the alcohol regulation perspective
• Breaking the cycle of survival drinking: insights from a non-residential, peer-initiated and peer-run managed alcohol program
• Cancer Warning Labels on Alcohol Containers: A Consumer’s Right to Know, a Government’s Responsibility to Inform, and an Industry’s Power to Thwart
• Communicating risks to drinkers: testing alcohol labels with a cancer warning and national drinking guidelines in Canada
• Community managed alcohol programs in Canada: Overview of key dimensions and implementation
• Concordance of self-reported drug use and saliva drug tests in a sample of emergency department patients
• Counting the cold ones: A comparison of methods measuring total alcohol consumption of managed alcohol program participants
• Courtesy stigma: a hidden health concern among front-line service providers to sex workers
• Does knowing alcohol causes cancer improve support for alcohol policies?
• 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
• Do managed alcohol programs change patterns of alcohol consumption and reduce related harm? A pilot study
• Drug use trends in Victoria and Vancouver, and changes in injection drug use after the closure of Victoria’s fixed site needle exchange (PDF 919kb)
• Effects of strengthening alcohol labels on attention, message processing, and perceived effectiveness: A quasi-experimental study in Yukon, Canada
• Evaluating Effectiveness of Alcohol Harm Reduction and Housing Instability (PPT) (PDF 1mb)
• Evaluating recall bias in a case-crossover design estimating risk of injury related to alcohol: data from six countries
• Evaluation of a managed alcohol program in Vancouver, BC: Early findings and reflections on alcohol harm reduction
• Every Washroom: De facto consumption sites in the epicenter of an overdose public health emergency
• Examining the Impact of Alcohol Labels on Awareness and Knowledge of National Drinking Guidelines: A Real-World Study in Yukon, Canada
• 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 public injection and nonfatal overdose among people who inject drugs in street-based settings
• Finding safety: A pilot study of Managed Alcohol Program participants' perceptions of housing and quality of life
• Gender differences in the consumption of alcohol mixed with caffeine and risk of injury
• 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
• Impact on alcohol-related mortality of a rapid rise in the density of private liquor outlets in British Columbia: A local area multi-level analysis
• Improving Knowledge that Alcohol Can Cause Cancer is Associated with Consumer Support for Alcohol Policies: Findings from a Real-World Alcohol Labelling Study
• Legalization of Cannabis in Canada: Implementation strategies and public health
• Managed alcohol programs in the context of Housing First
• Minimum alcohol prices and outlet densities in British Columbia, Canada: Estimated impacts on alcohol-attributable hospital admissions
• Misleading UK alcohol industry criticism of Canadian research on minimum pricing
• News Media and the Influence of the Alcohol Industry: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Alcohol Warning Labels With a Cancer Message in Canada and Ireland
• Nonfatal overdose from alcohol and/or drugs among a sample of recreational drug users
• Northern Territories Alcohol Label Study: Baseline Report Executive Summary
• On the outside looking in: Finding a place for managed alcohol programs in the harm reduction movement
• Overdose events in British Columbia: Trends in substances involved, contexts and responses (PDF 585kb)
• Partying Last Weekend: Factors Related to Heavy Episodic Drinking Among People Who Use Recreational Drugs
• Policy Brief: Not Just a Walk in the Park: Unsupervised Alcohol Consumption on Municipal Properties in BC
• Prevalence report 2008-12: Alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes & other drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 262kb)
• Prevalence report 2008-12: Alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes & RX drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 391kb)
• Prevalence report 2008-12: Cocaine, ecstasy, heroin & other drugs in BC & other provinces (PDF 341kb)
• Pricing of alcohol in Canada: A comparison of provincial policies and harm-reduction opportunities
• Recall bias across 7 days in self-reported alcohol consumption prior to injury among emergency department patients
• Reducing alcohol-related harms and costs in Alberta: A Provincial summary report (PDF 285kb)
• Reducing alcohol-related harms and costs in British Columbia: A provincial summary report (PDF 553kb)
• Report: Not Just a Walk in the Park: Unsupervised Alcohol Consumption on Municipal Properties in BC
• Risk of injury from alcohol, marijuana and other drug use among emergency department patients
• Risk of injury from drinking: The difference which study design makes
• Sales and Revenue from Regulated Cannabis Products in BC: October 2018-December 2020
• Scale up of Managed Alcohol Programs
• Sexual identity and drug use harm among high-risk, active substance users
• Stratégies pour réduire les méfaits et les coûts liés à l’alcool au Canada : Une revue des politiques Fédérales
• Stratégies pour réduire les méfaits et les coûts liés à l’alcool au Canada : Une revue des politiques provinciales et territoriales (sommaire)
• Strategies to reduce alcohol-related harms and costs in Canada: A comparison of provincial policies
• Strategies to reduce alcohol-related harms and costs in Canada: A comparison of Provincial policies (PDF 385kb)
• Strategies to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms and Costs in Canada: A Review of Federal Policies
• Strategies to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms and Costs in Canada: A Review of Provincial and Territorial Policies
• Surveillance systems and trauma care: What can be done in the emergency department? In: Prevention of alcohol-related injuries in the Americas (PDF 319kb)
• Testing Alcohol Labels as a Tool to Communicate Cancer Risk to Drinkers: A Real-World Quasi-Experimental Study
• Testing the Effectiveness of Enhanced Alcohol Warning Labels and Modifications Resulting From Alcohol Industry Interference in Yukon, Canada: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study
• Testing the Efficacy of Alcohol Labels with Standard Drink Information and National Drinking Guidelines on Consumers’ Ability to Estimate Alcohol Consumption
• The Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Findings from a review of provincial and territorial alcohol policies
• The Effects of Alcohol Warning Labels on Population Alcohol Consumption: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Alcohol Sales in Yukon, Canada
• The potential of alcohol labelling to promote public health and safety in Canada: A Rapid Review
• The price of getting high, stoned and drunk in BC: A comparison of minimum prices for alcohol and other psychoactive substances (PDF 423kb)
• The relationship between changes to minimum alcohol prices, outlet density and alcohol-attributable deaths in British Columbia, 2002-2009
• 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
• Use as directed: do standard drink labels on alcohol containers help consumers drink (ir)responsibly? Real‐world evidence from a quasi‐experimental study in Yukon, Canada
• WHO should not support alcohol industry co‐regulation of public health labelling
• “We Have a Right to Know”: Exploring Consumer Opinions on Content, Design and Acceptability of Enhanced Alcohol Labels