CCPHE Director

Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite

Assistant Professor, SPPH UBC; Scientific Director of Correctional Health, BCMHSUS

Research Focus: Dr. Slaunwhite has expertise in overdose, substance use, addiction and mental health. Dr. Slaunwhite leads a program of research that uses administrative health data and community-based participatory methods in the areas of peer support, substance use and community reintegration after release from provincial and federal correctional institutions. Dr. Slaunwhite is the Scientific Director of Correctional Health with BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS) and was previously the scientific lead of the BC Provincial Overdose Cohort. The Cohort is a collection of linked administrative data, including data from BC Emergency Health Services and BC Coroner’s Service, on fatal and non-fatal overdose events in BC since 2015.

For Dr. Slaunwhite’s current research, please see Projects.

Other CCPHE Principal Investigators

Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin (Inaugural Director, CCPHE 2006-2022), Adjunct Faculty Clinical Professor, SPPH UBC

CCPHE Projects:

  1. Unlocking the Gates Peer Health Mentoring Program
  2. Peter Wall International Research Roundtable
  3. Supporting the Achievement of Health Goals with Formerly Incarcerated Men
  4. Guidelines for the Implementation of Mother-Child Units in Canadian Correctional Facilities
  5. P4HIV
  6. P4H
  7. P4C 

Dr. Chris Richardson, Research Associate, SPPH UBC

CCPHE Projects: Trauma at the Root: Exploring Paths to Healing with Formerly Incarcerated Men

Dr. Helen Brown, Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing UBC

CCPHE Projects: Transformative Health & Justice Research Cluster