ICPA2025-PID125-Aidah Ajambo and Rosemary Ricciardelli

A Partnership Between Canadian Researchers and the Uganda Prisons Service: Lessons Learned From the Mbarara Prison Complex in Uganda and Empowerment Through Sustainable Research

Authors

Dr Aidah Ajambo

Associate Consultant of Public Health, Uganda Prison Service, Uganda

Dr. Ajambo Aidah is a medical specialist with extensive experience in establishing, monitoring, and managing health systems within compromised communities in impoverished African countries. She leverages her broad continental expertise to formulate and implement context tailored health programs and interventions to predict and monitor various health challenges and epidemics.

Rosemary Ricciardelli

Professor and Research Chair, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Dr. Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor (PhD) in the School of Maritime Studies and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness, at Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute. The winner of the 2023 International Corrections and Prison Association’s Research Excellence Award, the Canadian Sociological Association’s Angus Reid Applied Researcher Award, and the President’s Award for the International Community Justice Association in 2024. Ricciardelli was also elected to the Royal Society of Canada and is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Her research centers on evolving understandings of gender, vulnerabilities, risk, and experiences and issues within different facets of the criminal justice system and among mariners. She has published 18 books, 320+ journal articles and 75+ chapters all in the areas of police, firefighting, correctional workers, public safety communicators, and criminalized persons, and wellness – broadly defined. As a sex and gender researcher, her interests lay in the social health, identity construction, and lived experiences of individuals. She leads a longitudinal study on the mental health and well-being experiences of correctional officers employed by Correctional Services Canada and has participated in correctional officer training with Correctional Services Canada. She also works in partnership on a research project with the Uganda Prison Service and contributes to MicroResearch International.

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