
David P. Ball, Co-host
David P. Ball is a multimedia journalist with 20 years’ experience in print, radio and digital news and investigative reporting. He has won awards from the Jack Webster Foundation and Canadian Association of Journalists, and an honourable mention from the Mindset Award for workplace mental health reporting. He has written extensively about B.C.’s opioid emergency, mental health, and community-led drug policy advocacy. Previously with the Star Vancouver, he co-hosts The Pulse show on Vancouver Co-op Radio focused on the Downtown Eastside. He has been published in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, The Tyee, and Agence France Presse.

Cited Media
The BC ECHO on Substance Use worked with Polly Leger (season 1), Ren Bangert (season 2) and others at Cited Media to develop Addiction Practice Pod.
Cited Media is an independent media company based in Toronto that specializes in knowledge mobilization and community-partnered journalism. Cited’s award-winning podcasts and web videos bring producers, scholars, journalists and communities together to co-create groundbreaking original content that makes expertise more accessible to publics, and publics more accessible to experts.