Dr. Tim Naimi is currently Director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR), a professor at the University of Victoria’s School of Public Health and Social Policy, and Co-Principal Investigator on the CAPE project. He is a physician and alcohol epidemiologist who trained at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and co-founded the Alcohol Team. Tim’s research interests include substance-use epidemiology (particularly binge drinking, youth drinking, and health effects of low-dose ethanol) and the evaluation of alcohol policies for preventing and reducing alcohol harms.

Kate Vallance is a Research Associate at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR). Her work involves project management and knowledge translation for the CAPE project and a variety of other alcohol and other drug research projects on topics such as data monitoring, Managed Alcohol Programs, alcohol policy implementation across Canada, and alcohol warning labels in the northern territories.