Barbara Fornssler

My community-based research program focuses on advancing harm reduction and evidence-based substance use policy, with emphasis on amplifying voices of people with lived and living experience. I developed and now direct the Graduate Certificate in Substance Use Health and Wellbeing program, the first graduate-level certificate at USask. Additionally, I developed and now direct the micro-credential ‘Municipal Leadership in Addressing Substance Use Harms’ course. Both initiatives aim to build capacity among health professionals and community leaders. My office on campus is a Naloxone distribution site and am a Naloxone trainer addressing opioid related harms within the campus and larger community.