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Kanna Hayashi
Associate Professor, St. Paul's Hospital Chair in Substance Use Research MSHRBC Scholar
Kanna Hayashi
Associate Professor, St. Paul's Hospital Chair in Substance Use Research, MSHRBC Scholar
- kanna_hayashi@sfu.ca
- HC 2424
Areas of interest
Epidemiology, community-based research, public health and human rights, substance use, and health services for drug-using populations
Education
- BA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- MIA & MPH, Columbia University
- PhD, University of British Columbia
Biography
Dr. Kanna Hayashi joined the Faculty of Health Sciences at 丁香园AV in September 2016. Dr. Hayashi completed two Master鈥檚 degrees in International Affairs and Public Health and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is also a Research Scientist at the and Scientific and Research staff at the Vancouver Coastal Health. She has won a number of prestigious academic awards, including the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 Alice Wilson Award and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award. At the 2016 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Scientific Consultation on HIV and drugs, she served as the group lead on the role of ARVs in HIV prevention, treatment and care among people who use drugs and co-drafted the Scientific Statement 鈥淪cience addressing drugs and HIV: State of the Art,鈥� which was presented at the 59th Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs.
Research interests
Dr. Hayashi鈥檚 primary research interests and expertise include epidemiology, community-based research, public health and human rights, substance use, and health services for drug-using populations. She currently leads the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study (VIDUS), a U.S. NIH-funded prospective cohort study of more than 1000 people who inject drugs in Vancouver, which aims to investigate the natural history of injection drug use. She also has extensive international research experience. Since 2008, she has led the Mitsampan Community Research Project, a serial cross-sectional mixed-methods study to investigate drug-using behavior, healthcare access and other drug-related harm among people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand.
Teaching interests
Dr. Hayashi鈥檚 teaching interests are in the area of substance use and infectious disease epidemiology, social epidemiology, international drug policy, and health services research focusing on substance use.
Courses
Future courses may be subject to change.
Publications and activities
View Dr. Hayashi's publications .