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2023

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Overview

Thomas Kerr is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has made significant contributions in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pharmacology, General Health Professions, and Toxicology. Their research spans numerous topics, notably opioid use disorder treatment, HIV related to drug use and sexual risk, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, forensic toxicology and drug analysis, cannabis and cannabinoid research, homelessness and social issues, and prenatal substance exposure effects.

The research output includes a number of papers published across prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include the International Journal of Drug Policy, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Harm Reduction Journal, Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy, and Drug and Alcohol Review.

Selected recent publications by Thomas Kerr demonstrate the thematic focus:

  • "I couldn't live with killing one of my friends or anybody": A rapid ethnographic study of drug sellers' use of drug checking (2020), International Journal of Drug Policy
  • "It's Helped Me a Lot, Just Like to Stay Alive": a Qualitative Analysis of Outcomes of a Novel Hydromorphone Tablet Distribution Program in Vancouver, Canada (2020), Journal of Urban Health
  • "People need them or else they're going to take fentanyl and die": A qualitative study examining the 'problem' of prescription opioid diversion during an overdose epidemic (2021), Social Science & Medicine
  • Barriers and facilitators to a novel low-barrier hydromorphone distribution program in Vancouver, Canada: a qualitative study (2020), Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • "Bed Bugs and Beyond": An ethnographic analysis of North America's first women-only supervised drug consumption site (2020), International Journal of Drug Policy

Thomas Kerr collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors including Kanna Hayashi, M-J Milloy, Kora DeBeck, Evan Wood, and JinCheol Choi. These collaborations have generated a substantial number of joint publications, reflecting a networked and interdisciplinary approach to research.

The main subjects of Thomas Kerr's work focus largely on opioid use disorder treatment, with nearly two hundred published works, along with significant investigation into HIV, drug use, and sexual risk, and studies related to substance abuse treatment and outcomes. Their work also addresses forensic toxicology, cannabis research, homelessness, social issues, and the effects of prenatal substance exposure, contributing to a broad understanding of public and occupational health challenges linked to substance use.

Best Publications

  • Association of highly active antiretroviral therapy coverage, population viral load, and yearly new HIV diagnoses in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based study

    Julio S.G. Montaner;Julio S.G. Montaner;Julio S.G. Montaner;Viviane D. Lima;Viviane D. Lima;Rolando Barrios;Benita Yip

  • The case for expanding access to highly active antiretroviral therapy to curb the growth of the HIV epidemic

    Julio S. G. Montaner;Robert Hogg;Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr

  • Public health and international drug policy

    Joanne Csete;Adeeba Kamarulzaman;Michel Kazatchkine;Frederick Altice

  • Social and structural violence and power relations in mitigating HIV risk of drug-using women in survival sex work

    Kate Shannon;Thomas Kerr;Shari Allinott;Jill Chettiar

  • Reduction in overdose mortality after the opening of North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility: a retrospective population-based study.

    Brandon D. L. Marshall;M.-J. Milloy;Evan Wood;Julio S. G. Montaner

  • Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workers.

    Kate Shannon;Thomas Kerr;Steffanie A. Strathdee;Jean Shoveller

  • Expansion of HAART Coverage Is Associated with Sustained Decreases in HIV/AIDS Morbidity, Mortality and HIV Transmission: The “HIV Treatment as Prevention” Experience in a Canadian Setting

    Julio S.G. Montaner;Viviane D. Lima;P. Richard Harrigan;Lillian Lourenço

  • Longitudinal community plasma HIV-1 RNA concentrations and incidence of HIV-1 among injecting drug users: prospective cohort study

    Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Brandon D L Marshall;Kathy Li

  • Structural and Environmental Barriers to Condom Use Negotiation With Clients Among Female Sex Workers: Implications for HIV-Prevention Strategies and Policy

    Kate Shannon;Steffanie A. Strathdee;Jean Shoveller;Melanie Rusch

  • The public health and social impacts of drug market enforcement: A review of the evidence

    Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Will Small;Evan Wood;Evan Wood

  • Effect of drug law enforcement on drug market violence: a systematic review.

    Dan Werb;Greg Rowell;Gordon Guyatt;Thomas Kerr

  • Safer injection facility use and syringe sharing in injection drug users

    Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Mark Tyndall;Mark Tyndall;Kathy Li;Kathy Li;Julio Montaner;Julio Montaner

  • Changes in public order after the opening of a medically supervised safer injecting facility for illicit injection drug users

    Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Will Small;Kathy Li

  • The effect of adherence on the association between depressive symptoms and mortality among HIV-infected individuals first initiating HAART.

    Viviane D. Lima;Josie Geller;David R. Bangsberg;Thomas L. Patterson

  • Hospitals as a 'risk environment': an ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who inject drugs.

    Ryan McNeil;Will Small;Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr

  • Predictors of non-fatal overdose among a cohort of polysubstance-using injection drug users.

    Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Nadia Fairbairn;Mark Tyndall;Mark Tyndall;David Marsh;David Marsh

  • Evaluating methamphetamine use and risks of injection initiation among street youth: the ARYS study

    Evan Wood;Evan Wood;Jo-Anne Stoltz;Julio S G Montaner;Julio S G Montaner;Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr

  • Impacts of intensified police activity on injection drug users: Evidence from an ethnographic investigation

    Will Small;Thomas Kerr;John Charette;Martin T. Schechter

  • Unsafe injection practices in a cohort of injection drug users in Vancouver: Could safer injecting rooms help?

    Evan Wood;Mark W. Tyndall;Patricia M. Spittal;Kathy Li

  • High rates of primary care and emergency department use among injection drug users in Vancouver

    T. Kerr;E. Wood;E. Grafstein;T. Ishida

Frequent Co-Authors

Evan Wood
Evan Wood University of British Columbia
Julio S. G. Montaner
Julio S. G. Montaner University of British Columbia
Mark W. Tyndall
Mark W. Tyndall University of British Columbia
Will Small
Will Small Simon Fraser University
Brandon D. L. Marshall
Brandon D. L. Marshall Brown University
Robert S. Hogg
Robert S. Hogg Simon Fraser University
Kate Shannon
Kate Shannon University of British Columbia
Jane A. Buxton
Jane A. Buxton University of British Columbia
Jean Shoveller
Jean Shoveller University of British Columbia
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego

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