Social Contexts of Administrative Data About Substance Use Disorder

About the Speaker:

​​Jeffrey Morgan is a doctoral candidate in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia and a BC Centre on Substance Use. His research explores how values, biases and social contexts are encoded in health administrative data about substance use, and the ethical and epistemological implications for public health, health services and policy research. Jeffrey has a passion for community-based participatory research, with an interest in developing and sharing innovative approaches to research capacity building and meaningfully involving communities at every step of the research process.

About the Series:

The Big IDEAs About Health Data Speaker Series features a variety of experts discussing how data can be used to advance health equity. It aspires to create a space for conversation about whether and how data can be used to advance equity in Canada; specific uses of and guidelines for the use disaggregated data (sex and gender, race and ethnicity, disability, income, housing, language etc.); and advancements in data research practices and methods that embed inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in algorithms, distributed analytics, community involvement and equity assessment tools.

PLEASE NOTE: This presentation is in English. The webinar will be recorded and posted on hdrn.ca.