Providing Cell Phones and Peer Support is Effective at Engaging People After Release from Custody in to Hepatitis C Care

ICPA2023 Presentation by Sofia Bartlett and Pam Young (ICPA2023-PID155)

Authors

Sofia Bartlett

Senior Scientist, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canada

Dr. Sofia Bartlett obtained a PhD from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 2017. She received a Canadian Institute of Health Research fellowship in 2018 and relocated to Canada to undertake postdoctoral training at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Currently, Dr. Bartlett is the Senior Scientist for sexually transmitted and blood-borne Infections (STIBBI) at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) in Vancouver, Canada. She is also an Adjunct Professor at UBC, where she is the co-director of the Canadian Collaboration for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE).
Dr. Bartlett leads surveillance and applied public health research that is focused on addressing knowledge gaps around the overlap of STIBBIs, and other infectious diseases, with substance use and incarceration. Her research focusses on informing public health policy and programming, while also advancing the rights and the health of people who experience criminalization and other forms marginalization.

Pam Young

Program Manager, Unlocking the Gates Services Society, Canada

Pam Young has worked with Unlocking the Gates Services Society (UTG) since its inception in 2011. She is currently the Program Manager, and previously worked as a Peer-Mentor for many years. She is extremely passionate about the work she does with people, and especially women, leaving prison. As somebody with lived prison experience Pam recognizes what a difference it could have made for her own journey to have been connected to a peer mentor during the post-release period.

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