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Dr. Tonia Nicholls invited to present at back-to-back Conferences!
This week, Dr. Nicholls was invited to present at not only 1, but 2 conferences! At the Women’s Health Research Symposium, Dr. Nicholls and peer consultant, Florence Ranville, had a very succesful talk titled, The Intersections between Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System: A Women’s Health Perspective. Dr. Nicholls spoke on the importance of […]
Congratulations to Jessica Ahn!
We are very pleased to congratulate our project coordinator, Jessica Ahn, on her acceptance to the Masters of Arts program in Counselling Psychology at UBC! We wish her all the best as she starts a new chapter coming this September. Go Jessica!
New Papers Published by Dr. Heather Palis !
Congratulations to Dr. Heather Palis, whose 2 papers on stimulant and opioid use among individuals in corrections centres have now been published. As the rates of stimulant- and opioid-related overdoses increase, especially for people with a history of incarceration, Dr. Palis’ works contributes to the rising need to provide support for this population. The BCCDC […]
Lab Members at the IAFMHS 2022 in Berlin!
In June 2022, several lab members travelled to beautiful Berlin, Germany for the annual IAFMHS conference. On the first day, Jessica Ahn, Armaan Rajan, and Dr. Nicholls presented an excellent symposium on the VERDICT study titled, “The VERDICT On Virtual Review Board Hearings For Forensic Psychiatric Patients: An Examination Of Virtual Engagement and Trajectories Since […]
Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Butler, Recipient of a MSHRBC 2022 Research Trainee Award!
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 […]
Dr. Amanda Butler Receives the Dean’s Convocation Medal!
Dr. Amanda Butler has been awarded the Graduate Dean’s Convocation Medal, an annual award that recognizes graduate students that have accomplished outstanding academic achievement. Amanda has a passion for research in the intersections of health and justice. Her doctoral thesis used population level administrative data from the BC Corrections system to study the intersections of […]