He was the founding Executive Director of a local non-profit agency addressing homelessness that engaged the street community in service provision and policy evaluation. He has a decade of involvement with the Movie Monday Society using media arts to educate about mental illness and stigma, and with the Society of Living Intravenous Drug Users (SOLID). Bruce Wallace helped to improved access to dental care for people in Victoria with low or no incomes in collaboration with Cool Aid Society. The Cool Aid dental clinic books more than 5,000 visits each year. With four chairs and two dentists working daily. He is now the principal investigator of a CIHR funded project “Closing the health equity gap: Implementing health equity in harm reduction responses to the opioid overdose crisis”.