Laura Brown
Research  |  2019-20

Portugal & Canada

Project Title: An Opioid Addiction Treatment "Tale of Two (and then three) Cities": A Comparative Examination of Porto, Portugal, Vancouver, Canada and Santa Fe, New Mexico

Laura Brown, MD, MPH is an addiction medicine, family medicine and public health physician in New Mexico, currently research faculty at UNM Center for Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions (CASAA).  Dr. Brown is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is currently doing a mixed-method research project highlighting the voices of the unhoused/homeless of Santa Fe with a federally funded pilot research grant. Dr. Brown received a Fulbright Global Scholar award in 2019 to examine the impact of local opioid use disorder policies in Porto, Portugal (2019) and Vancouver, British Columbia (2021).