University of British Columbia
School of Population and Public Health
2206 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3

Email: faithe@interchange.ubc.ca

Academic Information

PhD Student: 2011 -
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of British Columbia
Supervisors: Dr. Jim Frankish and Dr. Tonia Nicholls

Master of Science: 2011
Health Sciences
Simon Fraser University
Supervisor: Dr. Julian Somers

Bachelor of Arts (Honours): 2009
Health Sciences
Simon Fraser University

Research Interests

My research interests centre on issues of homelessness and housing from a health perspective, with a particular focus on the intersection of gender, mental health and addictions, and homelessness. My current research involves examining gender and injection drug use (IDU) among a cohort of homeless adults with serious mental illness. I plan to extend this work by exploring the impact of domestic violence, adverse childhood experiences and trauma as potential mediating factors for service utilization and long-term housing tenure among this cohort. I am currently designing a doctoral research project to further examine gender and IDU from a trauma-informed perspective. My objective is to explore the interplay of gender, mental illness and substance use with adverse childhood experiences, interpersonal violence and trauma in the aetiology of homelessness, and link to trajectories of homeless women’s service utilization, housing and health-related outcomes.

Publications

• Somers, J.M., Patterson, M.L., Moniruzzaman, A., Currie, L. & Eiboff, F. (under review). Drug treatment court of Vancouver (DTCV): An empirical evaluation of recidivism. International Journal of Drug Policy.
  

Abstracts and Presentations

• Eiboff, F., Somers, J.M., & Moniruzzaman, A. (November, 2011). Injection drug use among homeless adults with mental Illness: A gender-based analysis. Accepted at the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse National Conference: Issues of Substance 2011. Vancouver, BC.
• Eiboff, F., Somers, J.M., & Moniruzzaman, A. (November, 2011). Injection drug use among homeless adults with mental illness: A gender-based analysis. Accepted at the 10th International Conference of Urban Health. Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• Eiboff, F., Somers, J.M. & Moniruzzaman, A. (May, 2011). Characterizing gender differences among homeless adults with mental illness: Members of a Vancouver, BC cohort. All Our Sisters: National Conference on Women and Homelessness. London, ON.
  

Reports

• Patterson, M., Markey, M. & Eiboff, F. (2011). Baseline personal story interviews from the Vancouver At Home Study. Prepared for: The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), National Qualitative Research Team, At Home/Chez Soi Research Demonstration Project, August 2011.

• Somers, J.M., Currie, L. & Eiboff, F. (2011). Child and Youth Health and Well-Being Indicators. Assessing concepts and potential indicators of child health and well-being in British Columbia: Mental/Emotional health dimension. Prepared for: Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Office
  of the Provincial Health Officer, BC Ministry of Health.