Making complexity useful.

I am a global health strategist and scientist working at the intersection of evidence, policy and health-system innovation. The most important health challenges rarely fit neatly within one discipline; they sit between science and policy, innovation and regulation, individual behaviour and population health, and evidence and implementation.

These intersections have become the defining spaces of my work.

I work on the questions health systems are still figuring out — leading initiatives that turn evolving evidence, competing perspectives and system complexity into clearer decisions and better health.

Much of my work involves convening researchers, policymakers, clinicians, system leaders and people with lived experience around complex questions, building the shared understanding needed to move from competing perspectives to practical direction.

I began as a population health researcher studying how policy shapes behaviour and health outcomes.

My doctoral work helped develop the pilot for the International Cannabis Policy Study, creating evidence infrastructure to track the population-health effects of one of Canada's major policy shifts — non-medical cannabis legalization. What began in Canada grew into a six-country surveillance system.

At WHO, I worked where evidence meets global decision-making, contributing to international guidance on substance use, mental health and alcohol policy. These experiences sharpened how I translate complex evidence into clear direction for policy, practice and health systems.

Over time, my work evolved beyond generating evidence alone and toward helping organizations determine what the evidence means, what should happen next, and how to move from knowledge to action.

Across Canada, Switzerland and various international settings, I have worked and collaborated with public institutions, academia, and large international organizations (WHO, UNODC, UNESCO, Council of Europe) on issues spanning mental health, substance use, artificial intelligence, health policy, and population health.

Find the signal. Build shared direction. Move to action.

Today, at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, I lead and contribute to work where the evidence is evolving, systems are complex, and no single perspective has the answer. I connect evidence, people and institutions to turn what we know into what we do.

That is what making complexity useful means.

Explore my work here.