Karine is Associate Professor of Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Research Chair in Gender and Intervention in Addiction (CIHR), Scientific Director of the Institut universitaire sur les dépendances (IUD), has published more than 100 peer review articles in journals such as Substance Use & Misuse, and Qualitative Health Research. She has developed qualitative research with attention to multiple forms of drug consumption including cannabis in urban settings of Quebec among other territories.