Presented By:
Stuart Kinner – Professor, Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University
About:
Each year in Australia more than 60,000 men are released from prison and more than 7,000 boys leave the youth justice system, more than half of these having spent time in youth detention. Health outcomes for these boys and men are predictably poor, and rate of premature death due to preventable causes such as suicide, overdose, unintentional injury, and violence are unacceptably high. Discontinuity of care between custody and community contributes to these poor outcomes. In this presentation I will (a) provide an overview of the evidence regarding health outcomes for justice-involved boys and men, (b) explain why (dis)continuity of care is an important driver of these outcomes, and (c) describe a new model of transitional healthcare that is currently undergoing a national co-design process, and will soon be rigorously evaluated in a randomised controlled trial – the HARP trial.
About the Presenter:
Stuart Kinner is the Founding Head of the Justice Health Group spanning Curtin University and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He is an Honorary Professor at The University of Melbourne and a Technical Advisor to the WHO Health in Prisons Programme.
In 2019, he was a Peter Wall International Visiting Scholar and visiting Professor at The University of British Columbia. Stuart has produced 350 publications and attracted 37 million in research funding. According to Expert Scape, he is the #1 expert globally on the topic of ‘prisoners’.
Stuart Chairs Australia’s National Youth Justice Health Advisory Group, and serves on the WHO Health in Prisons Programme Steering Group, the Worldwide Prison Health Research and Engagement Network (WEPHREN) Steering Committee, and Australia’s National Prisoner Health Information Committee. His work is highly cited and used in policy development in Australia and internationally.
