Dr Mark Tyndall is a physician, epidemiologist and public health expert. He has worked as the Director of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and as a Professor of Medicine at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Dr Tyndall was one of North America’s earliest advocates for harm reduction programs and was at the forefront of North America’s first legally sanctioned supervised injection facility—INSITE—which was established in Vancouver in 2003. He has also recently launched The MySafe project—an opioid dispensing machine that resembles an ATM and gives people addicted to opioids access to a prescribed amount of medical-quality hydromorphone. He developed the project in an attempt to reduce the number of deaths via overdose in Vancouver.