Isabelle Boisvert (She/Her) is a Knowledge Translation and Community Engagement Expert based in Montréal, Québec. She brings over fifteen years of lived experience with substance use (opioids, stimulants, and alcohol) and periods of homelessness—and now several years of sustained sobriety. Drawing from this experience, Isabelle has become a national leader in community-engaged, harm-reduction and substance-use research.

She bridges communities, researchers, and decision-makers to advance harm reduction, inclusion, and equity. Isabelle leads the design of peer-led recruitment and engagement models that strengthen research with and for people who inject and/or use drugs, coordinating large-scale community-based initiatives that combine art, research, public health, and lived experience to foster dialogue, empowerment, and systemic change.

She has implemented more than 150 peer-driven presearch clinics and partnerships, revitalized long-standing research cohorts of people who inject drugs through community-led models, and leads a forthcoming publication on the efficiency of these approaches. She co-authored recent Changemark works called Shared Purpose: A Community Guide to Ethical Research Partnerships and is the creator and coordinator of Expressing the Invisible: The Art of Speaking out, a landmark peer-led, art-based initiative that merges artistic expression, lived experience, and participatory research to promote inclusion and reduce stigma. Her consulting and public-speaking work further advance equitable policy and practice for marginalized communities.

Services Offered:

• Community Engagement + Partnership Development

• Knowledge Translation + Capacity Building

• Participatory Research + Evaluation

• Public Speaking + Stigma Reduction