Welcome to the companion website for the upcoming Addressing the Health Equity Gap in Justice-Involved Care: Building Consensus and Mapping Future Healthcare Priorities Exploratory Seminar.  We are very excited for this event, taking place on May 6-7, 2024 and we look forward to seeing everyone soon.  Please feel free to explore this website.  We will strive to make sure that the most up-to-date information is installed.  Thank you.

Executive Summary

Prisons, jails, detention centers, re-entry clinics, and other justice-involved spaces are critical intervention points in the care of justice-involved patients. Innovative approaches to care and investment in staff support in these spaces have the potential to modulate the complex and unique health inequities that face this population.

The organizers of this seminar seek to gather an intimate group of approximately 15 participants for a consensus summit. The work product of this seminar is to create an agenda of shared priorities for the next decade of clinical, policy, academic research, and advocacy work in the care of justice-involved patients. We will draw on the experience and perspectives of a diverse and multidisciplinary group of community advocates, academic researchers, physicians, and policy advisors to discuss the future direction of care. To accomplish this goal, attendees will work with seminar organizers in the weeks preceding the seminar to submit feedback on topics informed by individual fields of expertise at the intersection of justice-involved care and their respective work. During our shared time together, we will finalize a consensus agenda using the materials informed by each participants’ domain expertise.

Workshop Organizers

Dr. Alice Bukhman, Instructor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Cara Muñoz Buchanan, Clinical Fellow in Health Policy and Social Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Dr. Marcella Alsan Angelopoulos, Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Dr. Da’Marcus Baymon, Instructor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School