LEPH Oration
Mark Moore, Research Professor of Public Leadership and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
Securing the Public’s Health and Safety: A Challenge to Democratic Self-Governance
How do we best understand and resolve some key philosophical, ideological and partisan tensions that arise in using state authority to protect individual liberty on one hand, and to improve individual and aggregate health and safety on the other?
[speaker TBC]
The new Africa Law Enforcement and Public Health Network
Munyaradzi I Katumba, Africa Law Enforcement and Public Health Network
The ALEPH network launch in 2024 was a milestone, the first regional LEPH network. In 2025 the project has launched national ALEPH networks in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. These brought together Civil Society Organisations including vulnerable and marginalised populations; law enforcement including police, prisons, justice departments, security sector, drug and crime prevention; Public Health including National Aids Councils, public health practioners, academia, health professionals and experts. The network is dealing with problems like ciminalisation, poverty, violence and HIV which affect everyone in society: seraching for alternative and decolonised approaches to the criminalisation of public health issues across Africa, and raising awareness of the public health role of law enforcement.
M4.1 The Need for More Effective Academic and Law Enforcement Collaboration
Convenor: Richard Southby
Chair:
Panellists:
- Nick Crofts, Executive Director, GLEPHA; University of Melbourne
- Richard Bent, President, GLEPHA; Simon Fraser University
- Brandon del Pozo, Assistant Professor, Brown University
M4.2 Law Enforcement, Vulnerability and Public Health Approaches: Opportunities and challenges to achieve meaningful change.
Convenor: Larissa Engelmann
Chair: Isabelle Bartkowiak-Theron, University of Tasmania
Discussants:
ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre, Universities of Leeds and York:
- Professor Charlie Lloyd
- Roz Cumming
- Dr Claire Warrington
- Dr Laura Bainbridge
- Dr Andrew Papworth
M4.3 Bridging Borders to Serve American & Canadian Communities: Protecting Deep and Enduring Traditions on the Front Lines of CSWB
Convenor: Norm Taylor
Chair: Norm Taylor, Founding Editor, Journal of Community Safety and Well-being
Panellists:
- Dan Meloy, Retired Police Chief, Public Safety Director, Ohio Deflection Association, Pioneering QRT Initiatives across US
- Lisa Taylor, Co-founder and Expert in Canadian Situation Tables, Public Health & CSWB; Advocate, Strategic Foresight professional
- Rachel Huggins, Independent expert advisor and recognized researcher in drug policy and emerging Canadian diversion models
- TBD – Additional USA representative anchored in diversion, deflection and drug policy
M4.4 Alternative Response Research Roundtable
Convenor: Jason Tan de Bibiana, Amy Watson
Chair: Leah G. Pope, Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Panellists:
- Eleven-month arrest outcomes among three crisis response models in Michigan
Leonard Swanson, University of Chicago
- Evaluating Community-Led Crisis Response: Lessons from Toronto’s Fourth Emergency Service
Carolyn Rowan, City of Toronto:
- Partnering for Systems Change for Alternative First Response Implementation: Lessons from New Orleans Mobile Crisis Intervention Unit
Jason Tan de Bibiana, Vera Institute of Justice:
1330 » M5 MAJOR SESSIONS
M5.1 Where to now? Considering the big picture in integrating organisational joint strategies and working relationships
Convenor: Inga Heyman
Chair: Nadine Dougall
Panellists:
- Professor Nadine Dougall, Edinburgh Napier University
- Justin Srivastava, Justin Srivastava Consulting
- Arun Sohdhi, Therapeutic Solutions
M5.2 Building Trust-Based Partnerships between Law Enforcement and Alternative Emergency Response Teams: Insights from Texas, Florida, and Kansas
Convenor: Gabriela Solis Torres
Chair:
Panellists:
- Mike Lee, Director of the Office of Strategic Projects, Legislative Liaison, Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
- Anthony Holloway, Chief of Police, St. Petersburg Police Department, Florida
- Rich Lockhart, Chief of Police, Lawrence Police Department, Kansas
1330 » P6 PROFFERED PAPER SESSION
P6.1 Drug use, harm reduction and HIV 2 – Africa
- Building Community Trust: A Way Forward through Collaboration, Co-Creation, and KP Sensitivity
Lubinda Chingumbe, USAID CHEKUP II Activity, Key Population Civil Society Organizations Consortium (KPCSO)
Co-authors: Liness Mwambanabantu,Gezepi Chakulunta
- Strengthening Community Crisis Response for Key Populations in Zambia: A Multisectoral Approach
Lubinda Chingumbe, Deputy Chief of Party, USAID Controlling HIV for Key and Underserved Population Activity II primed by Coalition Health Zambia
Co-authors: Gissepi Chakulunta, Liness Mwambanabantu
- Community perceptions of South African Police Service responses to substance use and the impacts on health and well-being of community leaders and substance users in a peri-urban community in Cape Town
Jodilee Erasmus, Scientist at The South African Medical Research Council
Co-authors: Prof Leslie London, Prof Nadine Harker, Prof Virginia Zweigenthal
- Collaboration of Uganda Police Force, Ministry of Health and Civil Society Organizations in Addressing Drug Addiction: A case of Methadone use in Kampala-Uganda
Robert K. Basaza, Prof of Public Health and Health Economics at Uganda Christian University
Co-authors: Maiga, AH, Zarugaba, T, Lukwata
P6.2 Dementia and ABI
- Prevalence, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Critical Wandering and Missing Incidents Among Adults Living with Dementia: A Multi-Database Analysis
Lili Liu, University of Alberta, University of Waterloo
Co-authors: Antonio Miguel Cruz, Christine Daum
- Missing incidents involving persons living with dementia: Resources for prevention and response
Christine Daum, Research Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo
Co-authors: Antonio Miguel Cruz, Lili Liu
- Evaluation of Return Discussions for Missing Persons with Dementia – A New Model
Nadine Dougall, Professor, Edinburgh Napier University
Co-authors: Inga Heyman, Andy Tatnell
- Catch-22 Conditions of Community Supervision: Understanding the Challenges of Compliance for People with Brain Injury
Arthur McLuhan, Senior Research Associate, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Co-authors: Madison Ford, Flora I. Matheson
Rapporteur’s report from the conference
Brandon del Pozo
Report from the GLEPHA strategic planning meeting
Richard Bent
Thanks
Vanessa Gruben
Leeds – LEPH2026
Charlie Lloyd
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