Kanna Hayashi

Dr. Kanna Hayashi is the St. Paul’s Hospital Chair in Substance Use Research and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She is also a research scientist at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.

The overarching goal of her research is to inform public health-oriented approaches to laws, policies and programs and thereby reduce drug-related harm and health inequities among people who use drugs. Her research interests and expertise include epidemiology, community-based research, harm reduction, substance use care, and health services for drug-using populations. She currently leads the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study (VIDUS), a US NIH-funded prospective cohort study of >1000 people who inject drugs in Vancouver.

Hayashi has won a number of prestigious academic awards, including the Royal Society of Canada’s Alice Wilson Award, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award.

For an up-to-date list of publications by Dr. Hayashi, please see PubMed.