Emergency Communication

Studio Projects

The SOONER Project

Co-design of Overdose First Aid Toolkit

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COM-CAP

Co-design for capacity building in opioid response planning

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RED CROSS

Equalising Access to Naloxone and Opioid Poisoning Education with a Focus on Rural, Remote, and Isolated Communities: A project of the Canadian Red Cross (CRC)

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SAVING LIVES

Saving Lives: The development and evaluation of a universal information design response for opioid poisonings

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Student Projects

CSSE

Community Supportive Safe Environment

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Nalox-Box

Saving Lives: The Development & Evaluation of a Re-Designed Emergency Naloxone Kit Design for Opioid Poisoning

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RTR

Road to Resilience/ Reverse the Risk) Substance Use Prevention Toolkit

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Destigmatizing Spaces

Designing Destigmatizing Spaces: Affording Social Supports at Safer Consumption Sites

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Publications

Sellen, K., Maryam, M, Parsons, J. A., Leece, P., Handford, C., Goso, N., ... & Orkin, A. (2023 - submitted). Co-designing Naloxone Distribution: Location Specific Considerations for the Implementation of Naloxone Distribution. BMC public health, …...
Sellen, K., Markowitz, B., Parsons, J. A., Leece, P., Handford, C., Goso, N., ... & Orkin, A. (2023). Considerations for the design of overdose education and naloxone distribution interventions: results of a multi-stakeholder workshop. BMC public health, 23(1), 1-12.
Mallakin, M., Dery, C., Woldemariam, Y., Hamilton, M., Corace, K., Pauly, B., ... & Sellen, K. (2023). From design to action: participatory approach to capacity building needs for local overdose response plans. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1-13.
Sellen, K., Goso, N., Halleran, L., Mulvale‐Fletcher, A., Sarmiento, F., Ligabue, F., ... & SOONER Investigators. (2022). Design details for overdose education and take‐home naloxone kits: Codesign with family medicine, emergency department, addictions medicine and community. Health Expectations, 25(5), 2440-2452.
Whittall, J. P., Orkin, A. M., Handford, C., Klaiman, M., Leece, P., Charles, M., Sellen, K... & Campbell, D. M. (2022). Resuscitation simulation among people who are likely to witness opioid overdose: Experiences from the SOONER Trial. Plos one, 17(7), e0270829.
Khorasheh, T., Bennett AbuAyyash, C., Mallakin, M., Sellen, K., … Leece, P. (2022) Supporting community overdose response planning in Ontario, Canada: Findings from a situational assessment. BMC Public Health.
Orkin, A. M., Charles, M., Norris, K., Thomas, R., Chapman, L., Wright, A., ... & Strike, C. (2021). Mixed methods feasibility study for the surviving opioid overdose with naloxone education and resuscitation (SOONER) trial. Resuscitation Plus, 6, 100131.
Orkin, A., Campbell, D., Handford, C., Hopkins, S., Klaiman, M., Leece, P., ... & Sellen, K. (2019). Protocol for a mixed-methods feasibility study for the surviving opioid overdose with naloxone education and resuscitation (SOONER) randomised control trial. BMJ open, 9(11).