Advisory Committee Biography

Colleen Dell

Email: Colleen.dell@usask.ca
Phone: (306) 966-5912

Colleen Anne Dell is an Associate Professor and Research Chair in Substance Abuse at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Sociology and School of Public Health. She is also a Senior Research Associate with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Canada's national addictions agency, and the Correctional Service of Canada Addictions Research Centre. Her research is grounded in a community-based participatory approach. Her research interests include the relationship between identity and healing from drug addiction, substance abuse programming, self-harm among women and girls, the connection between youth resiliency and inhalant abuse, and equine assisted learning as a healing approach to addictions. Her research areas are specific to Aboriginal populations, criminalized women and drug using populations. Dr. Dell is currently the lead on a collaborative research project, in partnership with the National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, that examines the impact of stigma in Aboriginal women's treatment for problematic drug use. She has also worked extensively at the community and national levels, including with the Elizabeth Fry Society of Manitoba and the Senate of Canada.