About the webinar: 

This webinar critically examines harm reduction for Indigenous communities, highlighting promising approaches as well as conceptual and practical barriers. Drawing on two recent scoping reviews of harm reduction and opioid agonist treatment across the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the webinar also summarises insights from Indigenous presentations at the 2025 Harm Reduction International conference in Bogotá, Colombia. Participants will gain perspectives on culturally grounded strategies and emerging frameworks for harm reduction in Indigenous contexts.

About the speaker:

Dennis C. Wendt is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he directs the Cultural and Indigenous Research in Counselling Psychology (CIRC) research group. For the past 15 years, he has collaborated with Indigenous communities in research pertaining to substance use health and community wellness. His work is published in over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he is the recipient of early career awards in qualitative inquiry and theoretical psychology from the American Psychological Association.