Adjunct Professor, Division of Social Medicine
Dr. Geoff Bardwell, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at University of Waterloo. His research seeks to understand how social, structural, political, and environmental contexts shape substance use and related public health interventions. He is a social scientist with training and expertise in both qualitative and community-based participatory research. He has conducted research across Canada in various settings, including community health centres, inner-city drug scenes, housing environments, and small urban, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities. He enjoys working in collaboration across disciplines and on mixed-methods research teams to more comprehensively understand and shape policy and practice.
He is currently the Principal Investigator on several projects including a longitudinal study examining access to opioid agonist treatment in rural and Indigenous communities in British Columbia (funded by Vancouver Foundation) and a community-based research project examining injection drug use and access to health services in Northern Ontario (funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research).