Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira
Assistant professor
Public Health and Social Policy
Accepting graduate students
- Contact:
- Office: HWB 285A jaimeasl@uvic.ca 250-472-3124
- Credentials:
- PhD (UCSD/SDSU)
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Harm reduction, HIV, Latin America
Background
Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira is an assistant professor at the School of Public Health and Social Policy (PHSP) at the 探花系列, B.C. and a Canada Research Chair on Substance Use and Health Policy, at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR). He completed his PhD in Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and San Diego State University (SDSU). In 2013 he helped implement an occupational health and harm reduction police training in the city of Tijuana (ESCUDO). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) in Vancouver, Canada, on the implementation and evaluation of a drug testing pilot to address the fentanyl overdose crisis. His work on the US-Mexico border seeks to implement and evaluate evidence-based harm reduction policies such as safe consumption sites, fentanyl drug checking, and community distribution of naloxone to prevent overdoses. His research seeks to transform the public debate by viewing substance use as a public health issue rather than a public safety one.