Jade Boyd is a research scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She draws upon qualitative, ethnographic and community-based methods to examine social, structural and environmental factors that impact people who use drugs, with particular emphasis on how gender—intersecting with race, class and sexuality—influences drug policy and practice. In her role with the BCCSU, Dr. Boyd collaborates with local and national peer-based, drug user-led groups, as well as leads a program of qualitative and community-based research activities investigating drivers of drug-related harms among women, including barriers to harm reduction and the criminalization of women who use drugs.

Danya Fast is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Social Medicine) at the University of British Columbia. Her current research traces the intimate and institutional trajectories of young people who use drugs in Greater Vancouver, as they navigate multiple systems of care and supervision. She lives and works on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam First Nations. @danya_fast

Ryan McNeil is an Assistant Professor and Director of Harm Reduction Research in the Program in Addiction Medicine in the Yale School of Medicine and scientific advisor to Crackdown. He was formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Through his qualitative and ethnographic research, he seeks to identify social, structural, and environmental influences on risk, harm, and health care access among people who use drugs.