Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin, Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, worked as a family physician in correctional centres for 16 years.  In 2000 she initiated a cervical cancer screening pilot inside prison, and later assisted with the HPV primary screening RCT in BC, ‘HPV-FOCAL’.  In 2005, she introduced the unique concept of engaging women in prison, prison staff and academics in participatory health research (PHR), to address concerns raised by women themselves, and this work is published in peer-reviewed journals and the book, ‘Arresting Hope’.