CCPHE is committed to encouraging and facilitating collaborative research opportunities to enhance the well-being of individuals who have experienced incarceration. We use community-based participatory research approaches to engage impacted communities in all phases of research and strengths-based approaches to utilize and grow the skills, knowledge, resilience, and abilities of people with incarceration experience.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Preventing HIV, HCV, and STBBIs with federally incarcerated people in BC
Project Lead: Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite (2022-2027), prev. Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin (2017-2022)
Timeline: 2017 – 2027
Preventing overdose among formerly incarcerated persons during a public health emergency
Project Lead: Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite
Timeline: 2022 – 2024
An evaluation of the health, criminal justice, and service use outcomes of the Ministry of Health assuming responsibility for prison health care services in BC
Project Lead: Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite
Timeline: 2022 – 2026
Understanding the Geography of Overdose: A Mixed Methods Study
Project Lead: Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite
Timeline: 2023 – 2027
Transformative Health & Justice Research Cluster
Project Lead: Dr. Sofia Bartlett, Dr. Helen Brown, and Dr. Lyana Patrick
Timeline: 2020 – 2024
For Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite’s work on the overdose response through the BC Centre for Disease Control, please visit Provincial Overdose Cohort
PAST PROJECTS
Trauma at the Root: Exploring Paths to Healing with Formerly Incarcerated Men
Project Lead: Dr. Chris Richardson
Project Period: 2018 – 2023
Unlocking The Gates (UTG) Peer Health Mentoring Program
Project Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin
Project Period: 2014-2020
Peter Wall International Research Roundtable
Project Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin
Project Period: 2019
Supporting the Achievement of Health Goals with Formerly Incarcerated Men
Project Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin
Project Period: 2014-2017
Guidelines for the Implementation of Mother-Child Units in Canadian Correctional Facilities
Project Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin
Project Period: 2014-2015
Participatory Prison Community-based HIV Prevention Feasibility Research Project (P4HIV)
Project Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin
Project Period: 2012-2014
A Participatory Approach to Developing Preventative Health Tools for BC Individuals with Lived Incarceration Experience (P4H)
Project Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin
Project Period: 2011-2014
A Participatory Approach to Improving Cancer Screening and Early Detection among Individuals with Incarceration Experience (P4C)
Project Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin
Project Period: 2012-2014