Taylor Fleming

Dr. Taylor Fleming is a qualitative health researcher whose work uses community-based methods to advance the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs and who experience housing vulnerability. Having previously completed her MPH (2017) at Simon Fraser University, Taylor recently completed her PhD (2024) at the University of British Columbia, where she studied how marginal housing environments shape overdose vulnerability. Under the supervision of Dr. Marilou Gagnon at the University of Victoria and the Canadian Institute of Substance Use Research, her postdoctoral research fellowship aims to characterize the experiences of people experiencing homelessness in relation to drug decriminalization/recriminalization in BC, document resulting health and social harms, and develop policy-relevant approach to reduce these harms.