Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Butler, who has received a 2022 Research Trainee Award from Michael Smith Health Research BC (MSHRBC)!
The award will support her study, titled Transforming prisons and improving health outcomes for people who use drugs: An evaluation of BC’s prison-based therapeutic community, which aims to identify the therapeutic communities (TCs)-related mechanisms of change associated with health and criminal justice outcomes, and will involve three main components: a survey with TC clients, interviews with TC and correctional staff, and linked administrative data analyses. This study has the potential to identify promising approaches to supporting people with substance use disorders (SUD) who experience incarceration, and will add meaningfully to the policy initiatives in BC focused on reducing overdose and increasing access to SUD care.
Dr. Butler recently completed her PhD in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, and will be joining the Department of Psychiatry, UBC and BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services as a postdoctoral trainee under the supervision of Dr. Tonia Nicholls and co-supervisor Dr. Jason Sutherland.
Read her full bio here.
Read the full MSHRBC announcement here.