2016

Annual award honouring Edmontonians under 40 years of age who are excelling professionally, and making important contributions to the community.

Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 Award

Doctoral graduate scholarship (2014 - 2015)

Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship

2014

Graduate prize recognizing outstanding doctoral students at the University of Alberta.

Dorothy J Killam Memorial Graduate Prize

2011-2015

Provincial doctoral graduate scholarship.

Alberta Innovates: Health Solutions Studentship

2010 - 2013 

Federal doctoral graduate scholarship.

Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Perceived unmet need and barriers to care amongst street‐involved people who use illicit drugs

A common public health-oriented policy framework for cannabis, alcohol and tobacco in Canada?

‘It's more about the heroin’: injection drug users' response to an overdose warning campaign in a Canadian setting

Applying a social determinants of health perspective to early adolescent cannabis use–An overview

Prospects for scaling‐up supervised injection facilities in Canada: the role of evidence in legal and political decision‐making

Needle exchange and the HIV epidemic in Vancouver: lessons learned from 15 years of research

Turning failure into success: What does the case of Western Australia tell us about Canadian cannabis policymaking?

I am an applied health services and policy researcher focused on advancing a public health approach to substance misuse by: (1) evaluating novel interventions designed to reduce the health, social, and economic costs of drug and alcohol misuse; (2) analyzing drug policy; and (3) examining health inequities and service barriers faced by socially marginalized populations experiencing drug or alcohol problems. My research is conducted in partnership with several local, provincial, and national-level service providers, policymakers, and public health advocacy organizations.

Harm Reduction

Opioids

Cannabis

Drug Policy

Substance misuse

Overdose prevention

Supervised consumption services

Illegal drugs

Drug Use and Abuse

Public Health and Health Services

Naloxone

Syringe distribution

Supervised injection sites

University of Alberta Faculty Profile

ResearchGate Profile

Google Scholar Profile

Four safe injection locations announced for Edmonton's inner core

Other opioids killing more people than fentanyl in Edmonton

Supervised injection site could come to Edmonton

College of physicians endorses effort for safe-injection services in Edmonton

Edmonton Heroes: University of Alberta prof stares down drug stigma

Edmonton needle-exchange sees rise in use, renewing calls for safe-injection site

Dr. Elaine Hyshka - Supervised Safe Injection Services for EDM?

Edmonton group pushing for city's first safe injection site

Safe Injection Sites, Elaine Hyshka

Fentanyl care in Edmonton ‘disappointing’: University of Alberta researcher

Top 40 under 40: Elaine Hyshka

Implementing harm reduction services in acute care: Patient and healthcare provider experiences

Western Canada’s opioid overdose epidemic: The urgent need for better public health response

Substance use, health, and homelessness in Edmonton’s inner city

Using research to leverage local and provincial drug policy change

On the limits of conventional approaches to evidence-based public health policymaking:  The case of supervised injection services

The science of harm reduction

Navigating the ethics of inpatient syringe exchange in a large acute care hospital

A family-centered approach to problematic substance use in Alberta: Perspectives from research, policy and lived experience

Health, prevention, and policy environments (HAPPEN): Investigating policy-maker and public knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about the effectiveness of healthy public policies

Managed alcohol programs: Evaluating effectiveness and policy implications

Implementing harm reduction services into acute care: Patient and healthcare provider experiences

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health

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