Meghan Dawe (M.A.) is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and a research associate at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Kirk W. Elifson (Ph.D.). After spending most of his career as a member of the faculty in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University, Kirk Elifson is now a professor emeritus in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.  His research interests include medical sociology, trend studies of substance abuse, and substance abuse and mental health, and HIV risk practices.

Benedikt Fischer (Ph.D.) is Director, CARHMA, and Professor, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Chair in Applied Public Health and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Scholar, at FHS at SFU.

Timothy J. Haney (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  His research and writing span a variety of areas including inequalities, urban labor markets, employment, public policy, environmental justice, and disaster. 

Wayne Jones (MSc) is a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor with CARMHA at the Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU.

Hugh Klein (Ph.D.) is a senior researcher in the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.  His research interests include

substance use and abuse, HIV/AIDS, sexual behaviours, mental health functioning, and the use of the mass media to promote risk reduction to populations that engage in high rates of risky behaviours.

Fraser McGuire (M.A.) is a Research Associate at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Nadine Nakamura (Ph.D.) is a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA) and Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), Simon

Fraser University (SFU). She is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on HIV, substance use, and health behaviour in underserved populations. 

Alissa Overend is a Tenure-Track Lecturer at Grant MacEwan University and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Alberta, Department of Sociology/Faculty of Physical Education. Her

dissertation examines people's experiences with Candida—a yeast-related illness of vague and unknown symptomatology. She is interested both in how people make sense of an illness which remains largely

misunderstood by biomedical science and with how these experiences come to be shaped in and through already-existing discursive terms.

Jürgen Rehm (Ph.D.) is a Senior Scientist and Co-Section Head of Public Health and Regulatory Policy Section in the Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research Department. He is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Public Health Sciences and Chair of Addiction Policy, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Katherine Rudzinski (M.A.) a Doctoral Student in the Dhalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is the recipient of numerous national and international awards for her work on violence against women. Her most current research focuses on extreme forms of violence against women in India and in south-eastern Turkey. She is the founding editor of the Women’s Health & Urban Life Journal. Her book entitled “Fleeing the House of Horrors (UTP, 2002d) received the Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award in

2004. Her edited book entitled Skeletons in Family Closets (with J. Trost) is published by WLU Press (2011). She also organized numerous national and international conferences in the areas of violence against women, health, family and gender.

Marcus Schulzke is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the State University of New York at Albany. His primary research interests are political theory and comparative politics, with special attention to

contemporary political theory and political violence. He is currently working on a dissertation about ethical decision making in war.

Claire Sterk (Ph.D.). is a professor in the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.  Her research interests include substance abuse,

mental health, social stratification, infectious diseases, and community-based risk prevention interventions.  In recent years, she has been principal investigator on National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded studies of young adult ecstasy users, new users of heroin and/or methamphetamine, adult persistent smokers, and the familial effects of cocaine use among young adults.