17th Annual Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health (ACCJH) Conference

17th Annual Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health (ACCJH) Conference is organized by Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health (ACCJH) and will be held from Apr 10 - 12, 2024 at Marriott Phoenix Resort Tempe at The Buttes, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America.

Description:
The Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, hosted by ACCJH and supported by ForHealth Consulting at UMass Chan Medical School, is an annual peer-reviewed conference that highlights emerging research and policy across the justice field and supports the ACCJH mission to improve evidence-based practices and policies to improve the health of justice-involved populations. It is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers, clinicians, public health experts and policymakers to meet this objective.

While the conference accepts proposed presentations or posters for consideration on any area of correctional justice health (see topics of interest below), we are interested in patterns, experiences and outcomes of health service utilization in justice-involved populations, including care provided during incarceration and both during and after community reentry. We welcome presentations on ways to effectively address the complex needs of justice-involved populations.

Educational Objectives:
Participants will know and/or be able to:
• Learn about emerging research at the intersection of health and the criminal-legal systems and gain skills in applied research and cross-disciplinary and systems collaboration
• Network with a multidisciplinary group of attendees interested in learning and sharing criminal-legal health practices and be able to name three opportunities to develop partnerships
• Gain new skills to develop academic-criminal legal health partnerships and overcome barriers to research, designing applied research, and program evaluation
• Learn from individuals with lived experience and those with academic and community agencies
• Reflect on emerging health policy issues in criminal-legal health.