Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes
SCIENTIST, PHD
Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes obtained her degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Cordoba (Argentina), a PhD in Social Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Methodology in Spain, and postdoctoral studies at the Andalusian School of Public Health.
Research Interests
- Addiction
In addition to her Advancing Health Scientist affiliation, she is a Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Population and Public Health and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Person-Centered Care in Addiction and Public Health.
Her main research area is public health and addictions, with a focus on testing alternative approaches to expand and diversify treatments for vulnerable populations.
She is currently part of several Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded grants; formerly co-investigator of North America’s first heroin-assisted treatment trial, the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI); and formerly the principal investigator of the Study to Assess Long-Term Opioid Maintenance Effectiveness (SALOME), a randomized clinical trial that tested innovative treatments for severe, long-term opioid dependency. She is also the principal investigator of the GeMa (Gender Matters) study, which evaluates gender patterns of drug use, access to care, and health among long-term opioid users; a co-investigator of The Cedar Project, a cohort of young Aboriginal people using drugs; and the principal investigator of the Program of Outcomes Research on Treatment with Injectables for Addiction (PORTIA).
Additional Affiliations
- Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Person-Centered Care in Addiction and Public Health
Media Coverage
- Canada Re-Criminalizes Public Drug Use in British Columbia (New York Times, May 2024)
- Drug overdoses now the leading cause of death among B.C. youth ages 10 to 18, data show (The Globe and Mail, August 2023)
- Drug decriminalization begins next week (CTV News, January 2023)
- Advocates say the federal government can do more to address opioid use stigma (The Globe and Mail, July 2022)
- Grim milestone in B.C. drug deaths (CTV News, September 2020)
- Confronting opioid dependency through patient-focused care (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, April 2019)
