She is currently facilitating the development of a UBC Division of Prison Health and Education, which will nurture university-community-prison engagement. Ruth is the lead research faculty for UBC family practice residency program, in which residents create scholarly projects that develop the knowledge base of family medicine. Ruth is also a co-investigator on the CIHR funded HPV-FOCAL study (a randomized controlled trial to evaluate HPV-testing as a primary screening tool) and the College of Family Physicians of Canada project, “Giving voice to the stories of family medicine.”