Incarceration and Bioethics: Health Challenges That Need Our Attention

March 10, 2021 -
6:15pm to 7:15pm

Homer Venters, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor
NYU College of Global Public Health

Abstract: Dr. Venters—former Chief Medical Officer of NYC Correctional Health Services, author of Life and Death in Rikers Island, and member of President Biden's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force—will discuss how COVID-19 has highlighted critical health crises in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers.

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Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Masters of Bioethics Program and Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Location and Address

Online