The mental health of people who experience incarceration: A forgotten public health priority

Please join us for the 3rd Great Minds Lecture of The Mental Health PhD Program about:

The mental health of people who experience incarceration: A forgotten public health priority.
The prevalence of mental disorder among incarcerated adults and adolescents is markedly higher than in the general community, leading some to characterise prisons and youth detention centres as the ‘new asylums’. Among people who experience incarceration, complex co-occurring health problems are normative, such that coordinated, multidisciplinary custodial health services are critical. Health outcomes after release from custody are typically poor, with high rates of suicide and self-harm indicative of under-investment in mental health services during and after the transition back to the community. Greater investment in evidence-based, coordinated healthcare for people who experience incarceration is justified on human rights, public health, public safety, and economic grounds.

This Great Minds Lecture will be provided by Professor Stuart Kinner who leads a Justice Health Research Group spanning the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Prof Stuart’s research focusses on the health of people exposed to the criminal justice system. He Chairs Australia’s National Youth Justice Health Advisory Group, Co-Chairs the Research Committee in the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health, co-convenes the Justice Health Special Interest Group in the Public Health Association of Australia, serves on the Steering Committee for the Worldwide Prison Health Research & Engagement Network (WEPHREN), leads the Health Theme in the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, and since 2005 has served on Australia’s National Prisoner Health Information Committee.

Event Details:
Monday 8th of October
5pm till 6pm Lecture with drinks after
Theatre 2 - level B1 - 207 Bouverie Street

We look forward to seeing you there!
With warm regards,

Dr Marjolein Kammers (please send any questions about this lecture to marjolein.kammers@unimelb.edu.au)
Coordinator of the Mental Health PhD Program

Prof Nick Haslam
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Prof Jane Pirkis
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Prof Bernhard Baune
Department of Psychiatry