Supporting peer researchers: recommendations from our lived experience/expertise in community-based research in

Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco1, James R Watson2, James Tavares2

  • 1MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. ibanezcarraf@smh.ca.

Harm Reduction Journal
|September 5, 2019
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