Dr Julie Bruneau holds the Canada Research Chair in Addiction Medicine, is Professor in the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine at Université de Montréal and senior clinical scientist at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) research center. Dr Bruneau’s work centers on advancing best practices to enhance addiction care, wellbeing and prevent harms, including HIV and HCV, among people who use drugs. Her research has contributed to a better understanding of factors impeding and facilitating efforts to reduce HIV and hepatitis C transmission in this population and to the implementation and evaluation of novel interventions supporting equitable access to quality health care. A clinician and a researcher, Dr. Bruneau’s accomplishments have transformed harm reduction and drug use disorder practices, programs, and policies both locally and internationally.