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LEPH Oration
Chair: Nick Crofts
Venue: CRX C140
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?
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 Law Enforcement, Vulnerability and Public Health Approaches: Opportunities and challenges to achieve meaningful change.
Convenor: Larissa Engelmann
Chair: Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Venue: CRX C307
ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre, Universities of Leeds and York:
- Professor Charlie Lloyd
- Roz Cumming
- Dr Claire Warrington
- Dr Andrew Papworth
M4.2 Bridging Borders to Serve American & Canadian Communities: Protecting Deep and Enduring Traditions on the Front Lines of CSWB
Convenor: Norm Taylor
Chair: Norm Taylor
Venue: CRX C308
Conference delegates are invited to share their own hopes, concerns and experiences in a “town hall” styled interaction with this panel, all highly experienced in cross-border collaborations.
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 and Design Thinking professional
- Rachel Bromberg, Executive Director of the International Crisis Response Association, a resource hub for communities across Canada and the United States that are developing alternative crisis response models. Member of Toronto Police Services Board’s Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Panel. Contributing Editor for the Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being.
- Chief Jeff Burnham, Springfield Police Department in Vermont, serving a town of approximately 9,000 residents in Windsor County, leading meaningful reform focused on prevention, community collaboration, and data-informed policing.
- Scott Allen, Retired Police Chief, leading the combined adoption of drug deflection academies, situation tables and CSWB practices in more than a dozen US states. Contributing Editor for the Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being.
M4.3 Alternative Response Research Roundtable
Convenor: Jason Tan de Bibiana, Amy Watson
Chair: Leah G. Pope, Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Venue: CRX C309
Panellists:
- Eleven-month arrest outcomes among three crisis response models in Michigan
Leonard Swanson, University of Chicago
Co-authors: Catherine Zettner, Amy Watson, Melanie Hinojosa, Juliette Roddy, Sheryl Kubiak
- Evaluating Community-Led Crisis Response: Lessons from Toronto’s Fourth Emergency Service
Andrea Morales Caceres, City of Toronto
Co-authors: Carolyn Rowan, Nicole Watson
- 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
Co-authors: Dominique Austin, Jackson Beck, Brenique Bogle
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: Joanne Hopkins
Venue: CRX C307
Panellists:
- Professor Nadine Dougall, Edinburgh Napier University
- Justin Srivastava, Justin Srivastava Consulting
- Dr. Arun Sondhi, 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: Gabriela Solis Torres
Venue: CRX C308
Panellists:
- Lt. Jose Gomez, Harris County Sherrif’s Office, Texas, USA
- Anthony Holloway, Chief of Police, St. Petersburg Police Department, Florida
M5.3 LEPH Education? What for, what’s important and how to make it happen?
Convenor: Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Chair: Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Venue: CRX C309
Panellists:
- Inga Heyman, Edinburgh Napier University
- Larissa Engelmann, VPFKRC
- Denise Martin, Northumbria University
- Yasmeen Krameddine, University of Alberta
1330 » P6 PROFFERED PAPERS
P6.1 Dementia and ABI
Chair: Graeme Gaillee
Venue: CRX C407
- Prevalence, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Critical Wandering and Missing Incidents Among Adults Living with Dementia: A Multi-Database Analysis
Antonio Miguel Cruz, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
Co-authors: Lili Liu, Christine Daum
- Missing incidents involving persons living with dementia: Resources for prevention and response
Lili Liu, Dean (Faculty of Health) and Professor (School of Public Health Sciences), University of Waterloo
Co-authors: Antonio Miguel Cruz, Christine Daum
- 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
P6.2 In and out of Corrections
Chair: Michael Brown
Venue: CRX C408
- Only Young Once: Youth Incarceration in the Deep South
Delvin Davis, Senior Policy Analyst, Southern Poverty Law Center
- Improving Outcomes for Contra Costa Public Defender Clients
Robert Kenter, Vice President, Center for Policing Equity
Co-authors: Hans, Menos, Paula Ionaide
- A linked administrative data study of continuity of care for patients in contact with Alberta corrections
Katerina Dolguikh, MSc student; University of Calgary
Co-authors: Reed Beall, Paul Ronksley
- COVID-19 impacts on decarceration for Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study
Nina Lamberti, University of Toronto
Co-authors: Ruth Croxford, Beverley Osei, Amanda Butler, Ruth Elwood Martin, Jessica Jurgutis, Kate McLeod, Martha Paynter, Howard Sapers, Raya Semeniuk, Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian
- From Punishment to Health: Reducing Drug Toxicity-Related Risk among Recently Released Individuals
Safiyah Husein, Meaghan Costa, Director of Policy and Research & Evaluation Specialist, John Howard Society of Ontario
Co-authors: Capryce Taylor, Sara Fructman
- Incarceration and Intersectionality: Perinatal Care Barriers Faced Marginalized
Populations
Xaand Bancroft, PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa
Co-author: Wendy Peterson
Chair:
Venue: CRX C140
Rapporteur’s report from the conference
Brandon del Pozo
Report from the GLEPHA strategic planning meeting
Nick Crofts
Thanks
Vanessa Gruben
Introducing LEPH2026 Leeds, UK
ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
The next International LEPH conference, the 8th in the series, will be hosted by the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre (jointly led by the Universities of Leeds and York), in Leeds, UK in September 2026. The conference theme will be ‘Vulnerability, Policing and Public Health’.
Professor Charlie Lloyd, University of York, Deputy Director
Dr Larissa Engelmann, University of Leeds, Researcher
Dr Claire Warrington, University of York, Researcher
Dr Inga Heyman, Associate Professor (Policing & Public Health), Edinburgh Napier University & Research Affiliate