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Dr. Lindsey Richardson, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She is a medical sociologist whose research focuses on the determinants and consequences of employment, income generation, and socio-economic marginalization among people who use drugs who are living with or at risk of contracting HIV. Dr. Richardson holds Master’s and Doctoral degrees in sociology from Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, England where she was a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar. She is currently supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Scholar Award.