Making complexity useful.
I am a global health strategist and scientist working at the intersection of evidence, policy and health-system innovation. I understand that most important health challenges rarely fit neatly within one discipline; they sit between science and policy, innovation and regulation, individual behaviour and population health, and evidence and implementation.
These intersections have become the defining spaces of my work.
Evidence for better decisions.
I began as a population health researcher studying how policy shapes behaviour and health outcomes.
My doctoral work included developing the pilot for a national cannabis surveillance intstrument to monitor the impact of regulation on policy-specific population health measures across Canada - the International Cannabis Policy Study.
Today, the ICPS consists of annual, population-based surveys conducted in 6 countries: Canada and the United States (since 2018), Australia, and New Zealand (since 2021), and Germany and the United Kingdom (since 2022) with more than 300,000 respondents, including approximately 100,000 cannabis consumers.
Dissertation: “Health Warnings, Cannabis Marketing and Perceptions among Youth and Young Adults in Canada”
Over time, my work evolved beyond generating evidence alone and toward helping organizations determine what the evidence means, what should happen next and how to move from knowledge to action.
Across Canada, Switzerland and various international settings, I have worked with public institutions, academia, and the large international organizations (WHO, UNODC, UNESCO) on issues spanning mental health, substance use, artificial intelligence, health policy, and population health.