Dr. Barb Fornssler
Assistant Professor Director, Substance Use Health and Wellbeing Certificate ProgramSelect Presentations
Stimulus: Drugs Policy and Practice in Canada 2018 (October 3-5) Workshop Presentation: “Realizing the potential of lived experience: Knowledge sharing and curricular change” Co-presented with Brandi Abele, Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs.
with Dr. Sean Smith & Department of Biological Flow.
Research Areas
Current Research
Current Courses
Recent Grants and Awards
Principal Investigator
2023
2023-24 Mobilize Grant, Call #1 - $10,000
Conscientious Conversations: A Community-Based Knowledge Mobilization Effort for Service Providers Offering Harm Reduction Supports in the City of Regina
2022-23 Solutions Impact Grant - $150,000
Building Capacity to Reduce Substance Use Harms: Researching Effective Evaluation Standards for the Supervised Consumption Site in Saskatoon SK
2022
Stakeholder and Patient Engagement Application Development Award - $3,000
Saskatchewan Centre for Patient Oriented Research, Learning Health Systems (LHS) Expression of Interest. (*Accepted for full application, due September 15 2022).
Project Title: Reducing the harms of health data gaps: Pilot for substance use data synthesis.
Grant timeline: May 2022 – September 2022
2020
Node Development Fund - $15,000
Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) Prairie Node
Project Title: Substance Use Research Group for Engagement (SURGE) Student Training Module.
Grant timeline: August 2020 – December 2020
2020
SPROUT Grant Competition - $180,000
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation & SK Centre for Patient Oriented Research
Project Title: Perspectives Priorities and Pathways of people with lived and living experience of substance use: Informing policies.www.p5projectyxe.ca
Grant timeline: March 2020 – February 2023
Co-Investigator:
2022
Research Connections Grant – $4,200, In collaboration with PI, Dr. K. Alphonsus
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation
Project Title: Spreading awareness on prescription drug misuse among older adults in Saskatchewan
Grant timeline: March 2022 – March 2023
2022
Solutions Impact Grant - $150,000, In collaboration with PI, Dr. C. Plante
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation
Project Title: Emergency Department Visits for Substance Addiction and Their Consequences: A Saskatchewan Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study.
Grant timeline: March 2022 – February 2024
2022
Innovation Grant - $50,000, In collaboration with PI, Dr. S. Tupper
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation & SK Centre for Patient Oriented Research
Project title: Solutions-focused storytelling to promote people-centered care: challenging stigma in chronic pain and substance use through graphic medicine.
Grant timeline: March 2022 - February 2023
2020
Node Development Fund - $15,000, In collaboration with PI, Dr. K. Alphonsus
Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) Prairie Node
Project Title: Sociodemographic factors associated with prescription drug misuse among older adults in Saskatchewan.
Grant timeline: October 2020 – October 2021
Select Publications
Fornssler, B & P5 Project Team. (2021). A Guide to Hope and Healing: Substance Use Services in Saskatchewan.An environmental scan of harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services in Saskatchewan. Available online:https://p5projectyxe.ca/project-resources/
Fornssler, B., Hall, L., Dell, C., Mushquash, C., Duncan, R., Butt, P., Hopkins, C., Poole, N., Menzies, P., Rowan, M., Dell, D., Martin, M., Mykota, D., & Fiedeldey-Van Dijk, C. (2018). Travelling the Möbius Strip: The Influence of Two-Eyed Seeing in the Development of Indigenous Research Accomplices. In R. Henry, A. LaVallee, N. Van Syvendale, & R.A. Innes (Eds.), Global Indigenous Health: Reconciling the past, engaging the present, animating the future. University of Arizona Press: Tucson
Available from: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol6/iss2/4
Fornssler, B. (2010). Affective Cyborgs. In Cardenas, M. / Fornssler, B. (Auths.). Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs.New York: ATROPOS Press.