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0830 » S4 PLENARY

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.

1030 » MORNING TEA

1100 » M4 MAJOR SESSIONS

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:

1230 » LUNCH

1330 » MAJOR, PROFFERED PAPERS AND MoI

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

1500 » PLENARY

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
video

1600 » CLOSE

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