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Welcome to The Worldwide Prison Health Research & Engagement Network (WEPHREN), an open access collaborative forum for everyone interested in prison health globally, aiming to improve the health of people in prison through the equitable development of the evidence base and through capacity building initiatives for health.
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About WEPHREN
Information on what the Worldwide Prison Health Research and Engagement Network (WEPHREN) will provide, and who it is funded and supported by.
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Get Involved
Contribute to our themed collections, write an article or blog, build your training profile, sign your site up to site-finder and share your experiences.
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Resources
WEPHREN's collections of key resources, documents and journal articles on the health of those in prison from various sources.
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Training
Develop and improve your research skills and career with these available training courses linking to prison health care.
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Events
Information on previous events on Health in prisons as well as the upcoming events, with further details on how to register.
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Publication Calls
Check out our latest publication call requests and see how you can contribute by clicking the link below.
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RISE-Vac
Aim to improve health of prison population by promoting vaccine literacy and to increase access and vaccine uptake among the prison population.
CALL TO MEMBERS:
Invitation to a Research Study
Would you like to be in a research study? Doing so could help research in prisons.
We invite you to provide ideas and feedback about what should be included in reporting guidelines for health research involving people who are incarcerated as participants. Reporting guidelines are checklists that researchers can use when they report their work, helping to make the reporting and the research stronger. Understanding how to report research may help make prison research more ethical, appropriate, and feasible. The items identified in this study will be published and go to an international working group who will finalize the reporting guidelines.
You are invited because you have experience in prison health research, for example as an academic researcher or as someone with lived experience of incarceration. This study is being led by researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
We are using a Delphi method, which is a method to gather expert opinion and build consensus. Study participation will involve completing three or four 10-minute online surveys over the next several months.
To find out more about the study, please read the information form at: https://dfmgp.mcmaster.ca/surveys/?s=RXLLMHJPFAFPPRFF and then if you would like to participate, complete the survey at the same link. Completion of the survey will be considered consent to participate.
Please email Jessica Gaber at jgaber@mcmaster.ca if you have any questions about the study. You can also email if you do not want to participate, and you will not be included on later emails about this study.