Dr. Heather Palis, who is working with Dr. Tonia Nicholls and Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite at the BCCDC, was not only successful in the CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship competition, she ranked in the top 1% receiving glowing reviews! She also was successful in receiving the Health System Impact Fellowship (declined due to accepting CIHR fellowship).
Dr. Palis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC. She has a PhD from UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, where her research examined health and substance use trajectories among people receiving injectable opioid agonist treatment. Her Postdoctoral research is also supported by a Marshall Fellowship through UBC’s Institute of Mental Health and uses linked administrative health and corrections data derived from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control’s (BCCDC) Provincial Overdose Cohort to examine trends of overdose and recidivism among people with criminal justice system involvement in BC.