London InterCommunity Health Centre 2023 Evaluation Report Launch

The goal of the evaluation was to examine and compare self-reported client outcomes from 2022 and 2023. In both years, clients identified reduced use of drugs from unregulated market, reductions in overdose and increased access to health services since starting safer supply.
Our Speakers:
Dr. Gillian Kolla PhD is a public health researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria. She uses community-based research to explore how to make harm reduction, health and social services more accessible to people who use drugs. She is currently conducting comparative research on the implementation and scale-up of prescribed safer supply programs in BC and Ontario.
Dr. Andrea Sereda MD is the lead and founding physician for the Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) Program at LIHC, providing pharmaceutical grade opioids to people dependent on the unregulated street supply. As a physician, she cares for people who use drugs, people deprived of housing, and people marginalized from traditional healthcare. She is an avid harm reductionist, practicing solidarity with all marginalized peoples, with the goal of eliminating power structures in medicine that perpetuate poor health and oppression.