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1691
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95

Overview

Will Small is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions in Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, and Social Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Ryan McNeil (12 joint publications)
  • Cara Ng (7 joint publications)
  • Jade Boyd (5 joint publications)
  • Rod Knight (5 joint publications)
  • Geoff Bardwell (4 joint publications)

Their research has been published repeatedly in several academic journals, including:

  • International Journal of Drug Policy (5 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (3 publications)
  • Social Science & Medicine (2 publications)
  • Drug and Alcohol Review (2 publications)
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (2 publications)

Selected recent publications include:

  • "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
  • A scoping review of qualitative research on barriers and facilitators to the use of supervised consumption services, 2022, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Understanding concurrent stimulant use among people on methadone: A qualitative study, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Emergency department experiences of people who use drugs who left or were discharged from hospital against medical advice, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • "Everybody living with a chronic disease is entitled to be cured": Challenges and opportunities in scaling up access to direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C virus treatment among people who inject drugs, 2020, International Journal of Drug Policy

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Public injecting and the need for ‘safer environment interventions’ in the reduction of drug‐related harm

    Tim Rhodes;Jo Kimber;Will Small;John Fitzgerald

  • Public injection settings in Vancouver: Physical environment, social context and risk

    Will Small;Tim Rhodes;Evan Wood;Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr

  • Displacement of Canada's largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown

    Evan Wood;Patricia M. Spittal;Will Small;Thomas Kerr

  • Changes in injecting practices associated with the use of a medically supervised safer injection facility.

    Jo-Anne Stoltz;Evan Wood;Will Small;Kathy Li

  • Syringe Sharing and HIV Incidence Among Injection Drug Users and Increased Access to Sterile Syringes

    Thomas Kerr;Will Small;Chris Buchner;Ruth Zhang

  • ‘Safer Environment Interventions’: A qualitative synthesis of the experiences and perceptions of people who inject drugs

    Ryan McNeil;Will Small

  • Effects of police confiscation of illicit drugs and syringes among injection drug users in Vancouver.

    Daniel Werb;Evan Wood;Evan Wood;Will Small;Steffanie Strathdee

  • Harm reduction by a “user-run” organization: A case study of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)

    Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Will Small;Wallace Peeace;David Douglas

  • A micro-environmental intervention to reduce the harms associated with drug-related overdose: Evidence from the evaluation of Vancouver's safer injection facility

    Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Will Small;David Moore;Evan Wood;Evan Wood

  • Do Supervised Injecting Facilities Attract Higher-Risk Injection Drug Users?

    Evan Wood;Mark W. Tyndall;Mark W. Tyndall;Kathy Li;Elisa Lloyd-Smith

  • Community-based participatory research in a heavily researched inner city neighbourhood: Perspectives of people who use drugs on their experiences as peer researchers.

    Will Damon;Cody Callon;Lee Wiebe;Will Small

  • The impact of a police presence on access to needle exchange programs

    Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Will Small;Jim Jones

  • “People Knew They Could Come Here to Get Help”: An Ethnographic Study of Assisted Injection Practices at a Peer-Run ‘Unsanctioned’ Supervised Drug Consumption Room in a Canadian Setting

    Ryan McNeil;Will Small;Will Small;Hugh Lampkin;Kate Shannon;Kate Shannon

  • Seeking refuge from violence in street-based drug scenes: Women's experiences in North America's first supervised injection facility

    Nadia Fairbairn;Will Small;Kate Shannon;Evan Wood

  • The impact of incarceration upon adherence to HIV treatment among HIV-positive injection drug users: a qualitative study.

    Will Small;Evan Wood;Glenn Betteridge;Julio Montaner

  • Advancing patient-centered care for structurally vulnerable drug-using populations: a qualitative study of the perspectives of people who use drugs regarding the potential integration of harm reduction interventions into hospitals.

    Ryan McNeil;Thomas Kerr;Bernie Pauly;Evan Wood

  • The potential public health and community impacts of safer injecting facilities: evidence from a cohort of injection drug users.

    Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Patricia M Spittal;Kathy Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Shoveller
Jean Shoveller University of British Columbia
Kate Shannon
Kate Shannon University of British Columbia
Lisa Maher
Lisa Maher University of New South Wales
Patricia M. Spittal
Patricia M. Spittal University of British Columbia
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
Brandon D. L. Marshall
Brandon D. L. Marshall Brown University
Alex H. Kral
Alex H. Kral RTI International
Carl A. Latkin
Carl A. Latkin Johns Hopkins University
Tim Rhodes
Tim Rhodes London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Viviane D. Lima
Viviane D. Lima University of British Columbia

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