1st International conference on law enforcement and public health

• Date:

  11 - 14 November 2012

• Location:

  Melbourne, Victoria

• Category:

  Possibility of Indigenous content

Overview

Law enforcement, especially through the activities of police forces, has a crucial but largely unacknowledged role in the protection and promotion of public health. While police are key partners in many specific public health programs, their identity generally as an important part of the public health endeavour is rarely recognised. This means that there is a generally inadequate approach to research and investigation of ways in which law enforcement, especially police, can be most effectively engaged and be most effective in carrying out their public health role.

The conference is an important step in beginning to close this gap in research, policy, and practice.

The themes for the conference will include a wide range of public health areas where law enforcement, and particularly police, have a critical role to play.

Substantive themes:

• mental health
• alcohol regulation
• family/domestic violence, other violence prevention
• HIV prevention
• harm reduction
• Epidemic control
• natural or manmade disaster response/control
• road trauma LE/paramedic interactions
• acquired brain injury responses

Conceptual themes (cultures):

• law, law enforcement and public health
• development of a research agenda
• review of theoretical developments in studies of human security

Contacts

Program Enquiries
Prof Nick Crofts
Conference Director
UN Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute
Turin, Italy
Email: nick.crofts@unimelb.edu.au

Dr Nick Thomson
Chief Operations Officer
Nossal Institute for Global Health
University of Melbourne
Mobile: 0409690256
Email: nthomson@jhsph.edu

General Enquiries
Elizabeth De Bono
Ph: (03) 9035 4601
Email: edebono@unimelb.edu.au

Matt Allen
Ph: (03) 9035 4830
Email: allenm@unimelb.edu.au

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