The Dean's Seminar Series on Mass Incarceration
The Dean's Seminar Series on Mass Incarceration:
A Public Health Lens on its Prevention and Consequences
Dean Linda P. Fried and Dr. Lisa Metsch, chair of Sociomedical Sciences, are hosting a series of seminars that will apply a public health lens to the problem of mass incarceration in the United States.
Many of the factors in people's lives that create vulnerability to imprisonment are also key public health issues: early child development; environmental, socio-economic, mental and physical health; homelessness; drug abuse; violence; and others. Our school has committed to leading innovative analysis to understand this complex web of causes in new ways and to identify more effective approaches to prevention along these pathways.
This series will bring to the Mailman campus a diverse group of scholars, clinicians, criminal justice officials, and policy advocates—each of whom provides a unique perspective on incarceration as a significant social and public heath phenomenon, including its history, conceptual foundations, relationship to crime, and consequences for public health.
A light lunch will be served at each of the seminars in the series. Kindly RSVP to Chelsea Davis.
February 14, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Mass Incarceration: A Public Health Catastrophe
Ernest Drucker, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Allan Rosenfield Building, 8th Floor Auditorium
722 W. 168th St.
March 14, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress
Becky Pettit, PhD
Professor of Sociology
University of Washington
Hammer Health Sciences Center Room 401
701 W. 168th St.
April 11, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Cultivating Rage in the U.S. Inner City: An Anthropological Perspective on Incarceration and 'Welfare Reform'
Philippe Bourgois, PhD
Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family & Community Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Allan Rosenfield Building, 8th Floor Auditorium
722 W. 168th St.
This event was organized and is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health, the Social Determinants of Health Doctoral Student Group, and the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training (PET) Program.
May 2, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Self-Harm and Solitary Confinement in the New York City Jail System
Homer Venters, MD, MS
Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Correctional Health Service
Medical Director at Rikers Island Jail
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Allan Rosenfield Building, 8th Floor Auditorium
722 W. 168th St.
June 6, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
The Consequences of Mass Imprisonment on Inequality: Population Effects on Families, Health, and Children
Chris Wildeman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Yale University
Allan Rosenfield Building, Room 532
722 W. 168th St.
July 18, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Reducing Racial Disparity in U.S. Sentencing Policies and Incarceration
Marc Mauer, MSW
Executive Director
The Sentencing Project
Allan Rosenfield Building, Room 532
722 W. 168th St.
