About the Author

Mark Tyndall is a Canadian physician with specialty training in internal medicine (McMaster University), infectious diseases (University of Manitoba), and public health (Harvard University). He is currently a professor at the University of British Columbia and was the director of the BC Centre for Disease Control. He has worked in Canada and internationally as a clinician, researcher, teacher, and advocate, with a focus on HIV, illegal drug use, and harm reduction. He has been at the forefront of needle/syringe programs, methadone maintenance therapy, supervised injection sites, and most recently safe supply projects that greatly reduce the risk of illegal drug use. He has authored over 250 academic papers and presented a 2017 TED Talk on harm reduction. He is committed to seeing an end to combustible cigarettes through vaping and other low-risk nicotine products.