Funded Projects: Evaluation of Interventions to Address the Opioid Crisis
Backgrounder
Through the Evaluation of Interventions to Address the Opioid Crisis competition, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research invested a total of $1.5M to fund 15 $100,000 projects. Of this total, $500,000 was set aside to fund projects related to non-pharmacological interventions for pain management. These one-year projects are designed to evaluate promising health interventions and practices that have been implemented municipally, provincially, and nationally to address the opioid crisis.
| Researcher | Location | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi | St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto) | Establishing an evidence base for assessing the effects of supervised injection services in Ontario |
| Dr. Sara Ahmed | Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal) | Evaluating the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an interdisciplinary primary care pain management approach |
| Dr. Kimberly Corace | University of Ottawa | Evaluating Ontario’s rapid access addiction medicine model of care |
| Dr. Huy Hao Dao | Université de Sherbrooke | Use of opioid test strips to prevent overdoses in people who consume drugs alone at home |
| Dr. Mark Eisenberg | Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (Montreal) | Interventions for the opioid crisis: a systematic review examining approaches in the Canadian context and vulnerable sub-populations |
| Dr. Michelle Firestone | St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto) | Evaluation of overdose prevention sites in Toronto |
| Dr. Tara Gomes | St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto) | Evaluation of the Ontario Naloxone Program for Pharmacies |
| Dr. Rita Henderson | University of Calgary | Evaluating origins, community response, and outcomes of Kainai First Nation’s opioid strategy |
| Dr. Elaine Hyshka | University of Alberta | Implementing supervised consumption services in acute care: evaluation of a novel opioid crisis intervention |
| Dr. Pamela Leece | Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (Toronto) | Health system evaluation of the gap in treatment for the delivery of opioid agonist treatments |
| Dr. Pamela Leece | Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (Toronto) | Implementation evaluation of barriers and facilitators to buprenorphine use in Canada |
| Dr. Jordan Miller | Queen’s University (Kingston) | Evaluating the outcomes and experiences of chronic pain self-management support with an opioid de-prescribing intervention |
| Dr. Patricia Poulin | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | Evaluation of Project ECHO chronic pain and opioid stewardship (de-prescribing opioids and use of buprenorphine/Naloxone) |
| Dr. Eldon Spackman | University of Calgary | Assessing a take-home Naloxone program that provides free kits to all |
| Dr. Ross Upshur | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (Toronto) | Exploring whether meditation can help people who take opioids for chronic pain and are also depressed |
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