You Matter: Co-creating Health Care Policy with People who are Incarcerated

You Matter: Co-creating Health Care Policy with People who are Incarcerated

ABOUT THE TALK

Dr. Sofia Bartlett will explore the evidence for Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infection (STBBI) testing and linkage to care interventions in correctional centres, and discuss the need to provide person-centred, culturally safe, and trauma-informed care for STBBIs in these settings. She will present the framework developed at the BC Centre for Disease Control to co-design health care policies and guidelines with people who are incarcerated, and demonstrate how this was applied in the You Matter Project to create guidance for providing STBBI testing and linkage to care for people who are provincially incarcerated in British Columbia.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Sofia Bartlett (she/hers) is an Adjunct Professor of in the UBC School of Population and Public Health, and is the Senior Scientist for STIBBIs at the BCCDC. Dr. Bartlett is the co-director of the Canadian Collaboration for Prison Health and Education, and is a co-investigator with the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network, the Canadian Network on Hepatitis C and the BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort. Dr. Bartlett supports STIBBI surveillance and programming, and conducts applied health research to address STIBBI knowledge gaps.

ABOUT THIS EVENT: The Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity Speaker Series brings cutting-edge research in the field of gender and sexual health equity to researchers, practitioners, students and interested members of the public, creating a unique opportunity for education and dialogue.

FINALLY: Currently, our event is only available in English, which we recognize is a colonial language. We acknowledge that language should not be a barrier to participation and we hope to host our Speaker Series in various languages in the future, based on participants’ needs and as resources allow.