Gillian Kolla

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Gillian Kolla is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Gillian Kolla has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 39 papers in Epidemiology and 16 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Gillian Kolla's work include Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (51 papers), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (37 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (12 papers). Gillian Kolla is often cited by papers focused on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (51 papers), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (37 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (12 papers). Gillian Kolla collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Gillian Kolla's co-authors include Carol Strıke, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Suzanne F. Jackson, Tara Marie Watson, Tara Gomes, Jennifer A. Jairam, Tony Antoniou, Benedikt Fischer, Katherine Rudzinski and Adrian Guţă and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Addiction.

In The Last Decade

Gillian Kolla

53 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prescribed safer opioid supply: A scoping review of the evidence

2024 35 citations Gillian Kolla, Tony Antoniou et al. International Journal of Drug Policy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gillian Kolla Canada	22	831	794	287	133	120	59	1.1k
Alexandra B. Collins United States	22	751 0.9×	941 1.2×	501 1.7×	227 1.7×	262 2.2×	61	1.4k
Elaine Hyshka Canada	19	473 0.6×	642 0.8×	381 1.3×	99 0.7×	127 1.1×	95	1.1k
Dagmar Hedrich Portugal	18	531 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	218 0.8×	345 2.6×	192 1.6×	31	1.3k
Suzan M. Walters United States	22	589 0.7×	997 1.3×	347 1.2×	471 3.5×	332 2.8×	60	1.4k
Elena Cama Australia	17	233 0.3×	402 0.5×	146 0.5×	231 1.7×	176 1.5×	66	841
Wendy Loxley Australia	15	180 0.2×	531 0.7×	279 1.0×	141 1.1×	157 1.3×	52	853
Alissa Greer Canada	18	326 0.4×	407 0.5×	190 0.7×	22 0.2×	167 1.4×	41	710
Peggy Millson Canada	19	233 0.3×	586 0.7×	221 0.8×	353 2.7×	129 1.1×	26	833
Ehsan Jozaghi Canada	15	418 0.5×	536 0.7×	152 0.5×	159 1.2×	93 0.8×	40	656
Сергій Дворяк Ukraine	18	363 0.4×	719 0.9×	107 0.4×	420 3.2×	180 1.5×	38	860

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Strıke, Carol, Katherine Rudzinski, Rose A. Schmidt, et al.. (2025). A sea of need: provider accounts of strategies used to manage admission demands to safer opioid supply programs in Ontario. Harm Reduction Journal. 22(1). 194–194.

Kolla, Gillian, et al.. (2025). Opioid medication doses among safer supply clients: Current safer supply doses and previous OAT experience. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports. 15. 100338–100338. 2 indexed citations

Kolla, Gillian, et al.. (2025). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to harm reduction and treatment services among people who inject drugs in Toronto, Canada: A qualitative investigation. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. 8. 100569–100569. 1 indexed citations

Kolla, Gillian, et al.. (2024). Mapping a moral panic: News media narratives and medical expertise in public debates on safer supply, diversion, and youth drug use in Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy. 127. 104423–104423. 16 indexed citations

Olding, Michelle, Katherine Rudzinski, Rose A. Schmidt, et al.. (2024). Perspectives on Diversion of Medications From Safer Opioid Supply Programs. JAMA Network Open. 7(12). e2451988–e2451988. 7 indexed citations

Schmidt, Rose A., et al.. (2024). Safer Opioid Supply programs: Hydromorphone prescribing in Ontario as a harm reduction intervention to combat the drug poisoning crisis. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 116(3). 398–407. 5 indexed citations

MacDonald, Martha, et al.. (2023). Trends in varying modes of drug use in opioid toxicity deaths in Ontario from 2017 to 2021. International Journal of Drug Policy. 141. 104197–104197. 7 indexed citations

Rosic, Tea, et al.. (2023). Trends in Rates of Opioid Agonist Treatment and Opioid-Related Deaths for Youths in Ontario, Canada, 2013-2021. JAMA Network Open. 6(7). e2321947–e2321947. 8 indexed citations

Tadrous, Mina, Tonya Campbell, Gillian Kolla, et al.. (2023). Characteristics, treatment patterns and retention with extended-release subcutaneous buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: A population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 254. 111032–111032. 8 indexed citations

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Tadrous, Mina, Daniel McCormack, Tonya Campbell, et al.. (2023). Assessing the impact of the slow-release oral morphine drug shortages in Ontario, Canada: A population-based time series analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy. 118. 104119–104119. 1 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Rose A., Katherine Rudzinski, Melissa Perri, et al.. (2023). ‘I don't chase drugs as much anymore, and I'm not dead’: Client reported outcomes associated with safer opioid supply programs in Ontario, Canada. Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(7). 1825–1837. 21 indexed citations

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Mitra, Sanjana, Gillian Kolla, Geoff Bardwell, et al.. (2022). Requiring help injecting among people who inject drugs in Toronto, Canada: Characterising the need to address sociodemographic disparities and substance‐use specific patterns. Drug and Alcohol Review. 41(5). 1062–1070. 2 indexed citations

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Kenny, Kathleen S., et al.. (2022). Association of Illicit Fentanyl Use with Injection Risk Practices Among People who Inject Drugs. AIDS and Behavior. 27(6). 1757–1765. 12 indexed citations

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Kenny, Kathleen S., Gillian Kolla, Michelle Firestone, et al.. (2022). Frequency of fatal and non-fatal overdoses and response to grief and loss among people who inject drugs: An unexplored dimension of the opioid overdose crisis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 237. 109539–109539. 12 indexed citations

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Gomes, Tara, et al.. (2022). Clinical outcomes and health care costs among people entering a safer opioid supply program in Ontario. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 194(36). E1233–E1242. 57 indexed citations

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Glegg, Stephanie, Karen McCrae, Gillian Kolla, et al.. (2022). “COVID just kind of opened a can of whoop-ass”: The rapid growth of safer supply prescribing during the pandemic documented through an environmental scan of addiction and harm reduction services in Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy. 106. 103742–103742. 50 indexed citations

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Gomes, Tara, Sophie A. Kitchen, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, et al.. (2021). Trends in Hospitalizations for Serious Infections Among People With Opioid Use Disorder in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Addiction Medicine. 16(4). 433–439. 27 indexed citations

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Kolla, Gillian & Carol Strıke. (2020). Practices of care among people who buy, use, and sell drugs in community settings. Harm Reduction Journal. 17(1). 27–27. 47 indexed citations

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Strıke, Carol, et al.. (2015). Ambivalence about supervised injection facilities among community stakeholders. Harm Reduction Journal. 12(1). 26–26. 34 indexed citations

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Kolla, Gillian, et al.. (2015). Initiation Stories: An Examination of the Narratives of People Who Assist With a First Injection. Substance Use & Misuse. 50(13). 1619–1627. 21 indexed citations

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