2012 Dr. Cam Coady Foundation Lecture Series in Health Issues
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 00:00
"A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America" Presented by the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. at the SFU Surrey Campus.
|
Presenter: |
Dr. Ernest Drucker Dr. Cam Coady Foundation Lecturer for 2012 |
|
Date: |
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 |
|
Time: |
5:00 pm - Reception at 6:30 pm |
|
Location: |
Simon Fraser University - Surrey Campus 250 - 13450 - 102nd Avenue, Surrey Lecture Room 3310 (Westminster Savings Credit Union Theatre) |
|
RSVP |
Anna du Bois by email to
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
or 778-782-6827 |
Dr. Ernest Drucker, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health; Senior Research Associate and Scholar in Residence at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of NY, and on the teaching faculty of the Bard Prison Initiative. He is licensed as a Clinical Psychologist in NY State and conducts research in AIDS, drug policy, and prisons and is active in public health and human rights efforts in the US and abroad.
Dr. Drucker recently published a book entitled "A Plague of Prisons. The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America", and his lecture will address some of the issues he raises in it. The lecture has particular relevance to public health in Canada given the imminent passage of Bill C-10 and mandatory minimum sentences.
Dr. Drucker will argue that imprisonment—originally conceived as a response to individuals’ crimes—has become "mass incarceration" in the United States, a destabilizing force that undermines the families and communities it targets, damaging the very social structures that prevent crime. America’s unprecedented rates of incarceration ought to be understood as an epidemic of gargantuan proportions, with all of the contagious and self-perpetuating features of the plagues of previous centuries. Mass incarceration is a social catastrophe on the scale of the worst global epidemics. This presentation will detail how the modes of analysis employed by epidemiologists to combat plagues and similar public health crises are remarkably useful when assessing the origins, harm and potential cures for the plague of imprisonment.The Dr. Cam Coady Foundation Lecture Series in Health Issues was established in 2007, through a donation from the Dr. Cam Coady Foundation in the spirit of giving access to health-related information to students, health professionals, and the public through annual guest lectures. This year our speaker is Dr. Ernest Drucker, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health; Senior Research Associate and Scholar in Residence at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York, and on the teaching faculty of the Bard Prison Initiative. Dr. Drucker’s Cam Coady lecture, "A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America", will detail how the modes of analysis employed by epidemiologists to combat plagues and similar public health crises are remarkably useful when assessing the origins, harm and potential cures for the plague of imprisonment.
Click here to view/download a pdf invitation
