CCPHE PROJECTS AND RESEARCH
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
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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 |
Evaluating prescribed safer supply among formerly incarcerated persons during an overdose public health emergency (PREVAIL)
Project Lead: Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite Timeline: 2022 – 2024 Project page: coming soon |
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 Project page: coming soon |
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Understanding the Geography of Overdose: A Mixed Methods Study Project Lead: Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite Timeline: 2023 – 2027 Project page: coming soon |
Transformative Health & Justice Research Cluster
Project Lead: Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite and Dr. Helen Brown Timeline: 2020 – 2023 |
For research projects led by Dr. Sofia Bartlett, please visit the You Matter – Pathways to Care for STBBIs website.
For Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite’s work on the overdose response through the BC Centre for Disease Control, please visit the Provincial Overdose Cohort website
PAST PROJECTS
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Trauma at the Root: Exploring Paths to Healing with Formerly Incarcerated MenProject Lead: Dr. Chris Richardson Project Period: 2018 – 2023 (Completed) |
Unlocking The Gates (UTG) Peer Health Mentoring ProgramProject Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin Project Period: 2014-2020 |
Peter Wall International Research RoundtableProject Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin Project Period: 2019 |
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Supporting the Achievement of Health Goals with Formerly Incarcerated MenProject Lead: Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin Project Period: 2014-2017 |
Guidelines for the Implementation of Mother-Child Units in Canadian Correctional FacilitiesProject 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 |
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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 |