Juls Budau, MSW

Research Advisor
UBC School of Population & Public Health
Victoria, BC, British Columbia

Juls Budau, MSW, is a research advisor at the Canadian Collaboration for Prison Health and Education at the University of British Columbia's School of Population & Public Health and is a lived experience member of the Decriminalization Evaluation Working Group at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research in Toronto, Ontario. She has a decade of experience working in and managing community overdose prevention and response services and is herself an OAT/prescribed safer supply patient. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia with her dog, Teddy.

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Presentation(s):

• The Short-Term Impacts of Drug Decriminalization in British Columbia

  Saturday, April 25, 2026
  1:30 PM - 2:45 PM PT