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Penn LDI Samuel P. Martin, III, MD Memorial Lecture with Emily Wang, MD, MAS

Mass incarceration’s disproportionate harm on Black communities places it as a feature of structural racism. But efforts in criminal justice reform do not address the structural conditions that perpetuate high incarceration rates in certain communities, including health. Reform efforts also largely ignore how the health system can address the harms of mass incarceration—directly and indirectly—for the most impacted communities. Dr. Wang will discuss interventions based at Yale’s SEICHE Center for Health and Justice that harness the expertise of formerly incarcerated individuals to address mass incarceration’s effect on health.  

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