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Ruth Elwood Martin
Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin worked as a family physician in British Columbia’s provincial correctional centres 1994 – 2011. She initiated a prison cervical cancer screening pilot in 2000, and later became co-investigator on ‘HPV-FOCAL’, an evaluation study of HPV primary screening in British Columbia. In 2005 she became the Inaugural Director of the UBC Canadian Collaboration for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE). In 2005, she began participatory health research with women in prison, correctional staff and academics, which is the focus of two books. , Arresting Hope and Releasing Hope (Inanna, 2014 and 2019), and several academic paper publications.
Ruth is a Clinical Professor Emerita, UBC, and is also a member of two national advocacy groups – the Campaign for the Abolition of Solitary Confinement and the Canadian Coalition for Children of Incarcerated Parents.
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By Domhnall MacAuleyDr. Ruth Elwood Martin worked as a family physician in British Columbia’s provincial correctional centres 1994 – 2011. She initiated a prison cervical cancer screening pilot in 2000, and later became co-investigator on ‘HPV-FOCAL’, an evaluation study of HPV primary screening in British Columbia. In 2005 she became the Inaugural Director of the UBC Canadian Collaboration for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE). In 2005, she began participatory health research with women in prison, correctional staff and academics, which is the focus of two books. , Arresting Hope and Releasing Hope (Inanna, 2014 and 2019), and several academic paper publications.
Ruth is a Clinical Professor Emerita, UBC, and is also a member of two national advocacy groups – the Campaign for the Abolition of Solitary Confinement and the Canadian Coalition for Children of Incarcerated Parents.