Events

The Dean's Seminar Series on Mass Incarceration:
A Public Health Lens on its Prevention and Consequences
Mass Incarceration: A Public Health Catastrophe

Mass incarceration has increasingly been recognized as a determinant of population health. The many individual and public health implications of incarceration are evident not only in the physical and mental strains it places on individuals but also in the transmission of adverse consequences to others in their families and communities. This series of Dean?s Seminars reflects the spectrum of individual and public health challenges created by mass incarceration in the United States. This series brings to the Mailman campus a diverse collection 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 important consequences for public health.