Bernie Pauly

Bernie Pauly, BSN, Phd Phone: 250.472.5915 Fax: 250.472.5406 Email: bpauly@uvic.ca Technology Enterprise Facility, Room 261

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School Role

In addition to my appointment in nursing, I am a scientist in the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia. I have strong working relationships with a number of community agencies that provide services and support to vulnerable populations marginalized by homelessness and substance use. 

Currently, I am advisory board member for SOLID (Society of Living Intravenous Drug Users) and Oasis Society. I am a research collaborator with Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness (GVCEH), Victoria Cool Aid Society, AIDS Vancouver Island and SOLID. For the past three years, I have co-chaired the research, evaluation and data committee for the GVCEH and facilitated the development of a report on housing and supports for Greater Victoria. In 2011, I received recognition as a City of Victoria honorary citizen and a University of Victoria community leadership award.

Research

My program of research is focused on the promotion of health equity for vulnerable populations impacted by housing insecurity and substance use through attention to the structural factors that impact inequities in health and access to health care. My current research focuses on enhancing health equity through the development and delivery of public health services, harm reduction strategies for vulnerable populations, and fostering transitions from homelessness to home. 

Current research projects include studies of:

• public health renewal and incorporation of an equity lens in British Columbia and Ontario
• socio-political factors that impact the development of community responses to harm reduction services
•  fostering cultural safe nursing care for people impacted by substance use and poverty, homelessness
• pandemic planning and evaluation of homelessness interventions

Drawing on a critical social justice perspective, research expertise includes community based and participatory research methods, critical policy analysis, program evaluation, ethnographic approaches, case study methodology, critical discourse analysis and situational analysis.

Teaching

As an educator, my primary focus is to create a supportive environment in which students can enhance their capacity for learning and achieve their identified goals and objectives. I teach at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Currently, I am teaching community and public health nursing in the third year of the undergraduate program. In addition, I supervise a variety of graduate students in nursing, interdisciplinary and social dimensions of health programs.

Publications

• MacNeil, J and Pauly, B. (2011). Needle exchange as a safe haven in an unsafe world. Drug and Alcohol Review, 30, 26-32.
• Pauly, B., Varcoe, C. Storch, J. and **Newton, L. (2009).  Nurses' perceptions of moral distress and ethical climate. Nursing Ethics, 16 (5), 561-573.
• Pauly, B., MacKinnon, K. and Varcoe, C. (2009). Revisiting “Who gets care? Health equity as an arena for nursing action.” Advances in Nursing Science, 32 (2), 118-127.
• *Lightfoot, B., *Panessa, C., *Hayden, S., *Thumath, M., *Goldstone, I., and Pauly, B. (2009) Gaining Insite: harm reduction in nursing practice. Canadian Nurse, 105 (4), 16-22.
• Pauly, B. (2008). Shifting moral values to enhance access to health care: harm reduction as a context for ethical nursing practice. International Journal of Drug Policy, 19, 195-204.

Projects

• Nominated co-principal investigator, Fostering cultural safety in nursing practice with people experiencing problematic substance use (169,9652). Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research BC Nursing Research Initiative. Jane McCall* and Annette Browne (UBC). This project is focused on fostering culturally safe nursing care for people hospitalized with problematic substance and experiencing marginalization associated with socio-economic disadvantages.
• Nominated principal investigator, Factors affecting Community Acceptance of Programs aimed at Preventing HIV/AIDS Associated with Injection Drug Use (32,041.42).CIHR HIV Community Based Research Catalyst Grant. Cecilia Benoit, Mikael Jansson, Dan Reist, Amy Salmon, Andrea Langlois*. This project, in collaboration with AIDS Vancouver Island, is investigating the socio-political factors that impact community responses to harm reduction strategies such as needle exchange services.
• Co-principal applicant, CIHR New Emerging Team Grant in Applied Health Services and Policy Research. CIHR Team in Public Health Services Renewal in British Columbia. Drs. Marjorie MacDonald and *Trevor Hancock (co-PIs), 1.5 million from 2008 to 2013.  This project is a study of public health renewal in British Columbia and Ontario, including a focus on the incorporation of an equity lens to promote health equity for disadvantaged populations.
• 2008-2010 Co-principal investigator, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Health Policy Ethics: Enhancing Equity (100,000). C. Varcoe (nominated principle investigator). This project investigated the role of ethics and values in the development of health policies orientated towards equity in the context of substance use.
• 2009-2010 Co-primary applicant, Canadian Mortgage and Housing External Research Grant, Next Steps: Evaluation of Transitional Housing for the Homeless ($25,000).  *Bruce Wallace, Co-primary applicant. This project, in collaboration with Victoria Cool Aid Society, was an extension of the SSHRC project, and included six month follow-up interviews with clients in the transitional housing program.
• 2008-2009 Nominated principal investigator, SSHRC, Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness: Assessing the Effectiveness of Transitional Housing ($50,000). *B. Wallace (co-primary investigator). This project, in collaboration with Victoria Cool Aid Society, focused on development of measures including structural factors to evaluate the effectiveness of a transitional housing program in breaking the cycle of homelessness.