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
- A Brief on Methodology: Using Proximity Analysis to Study the Impact of Substance Use Services On Local Neighborhoods
- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Canadian Managed Alcohol Program
- A Public Health Guide to Developing a Community Overdose Response Plan
- 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)
- Creating culturally safe care in hospital settings for people who use(d) illicit drugs (PDF 675kb)
- Disrupting Standard Mode: A Big Picture Story of Family Inclusion in Substance Use Services
- 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
- Every Washroom: De facto consumption sites in the epicenter of an overdose public health emergency
- Evidence Brief: Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs
- Evidence Brief: Supervised Consumption Sites are Necessary Public Health Services
- From one ally to another: Pratice guidelines to better include people who use drugs at your decision-making tables
- Housing and harm reduction: A policy framework for Greater Victoria (PDF 975kb)
- Legalization of Cannabis in Canada: Implementation strategies and public health
- No Vacancy: Affordability & Homelessness in Vancouver
- Practice brief: Implementing the Victoria SAFER Initiative
- Practice Brief: Infrastructure for Harm Reduction in Residential and Hotel Settings
- Quiet crisis: Homelessness and at-risk in Greater Victoria (PDF 2mb)
- Scale up of Managed Alcohol Programs
- Towards alcohol harm reduction and housing stability: Preliminary findings of Thunder Bay managed alcohol programs (PDF 645kb)
- What We Heard: Co/Lab Community Dialogues Trends and Recommendations for Action on the Toxic Drug Emergency
- Where’s the Housing? Housing and Income Outcomes of a Transitional Program to End Homelessness