WEPHREN hosted the University of New Mexico for the Alex Gatherer Memorial Lecture on Hepatitis C in prisons and an innovative peer mentoring programme. Find out more here
by Dr Éamonn O’Moore, Director of the UK Collaborating Centre for WHO Health in Prisons (European Region)
The work of WEPHREN is guided by a Steering Committee made up from members of the WHO Health in Prisons Programme Steering Group and other experts in the field who meet once a quarter to review the delivery plan for WEPHREN and provide advice and support to the WHO UK Collaborating Centre in delivering the objectives. Find out more here.
Go to pageThe European Commission published on 25 September 2019 a call for proposals for € 2.375 million to support transnational projects in the area of EU drugs policy. This ...
Suicide is a leading cause of death in prisons across the world and so to mark World Suicide Prevention Day 2019 on 10th September, suicide in prison is the ...
Engaging young people in drug prevention interventions presents challenges especially when the intervention is delivered within criminal justice contexts. As part of the EPPIC project we opened discussions on this ...
his resource outlines how health, education, social care, criminal justice, voluntary sector services and others can work together to stop children and young people offending. Collaborative approaches to preventing offending ...
‘Tuberculosis disease among Prison inmates is one of the major public health concerns. While, globally and India is moving towards “END TB” by 2025, containing infection transmission from prison to ...
"Mental Wellbeing Among People in Prison in Scotland", has just been published. It is, to our knowledge, the first large scale study of mental wellbeing in a prison population. The ...
A rapid testing and treatment system piloted in Swansea HMP has enabled men in prison to successfully start treatment for their hepatitis C infection within a day or so of ...
“Children deprived of liberty remain an invisible and forgotten group in society notwithstanding the increasing evidence of these children being in fact victims of further human rights violations. Countless children ...
Please click on the link for information on two opportunities for PhD scholarships related to prison health at the University of New South Wales, Australia - understanding mortality inequality among prisoners and a second study of sexual health attitudes of ... Read more
The NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research (Global HPSR) programme is partnering UK researchers with low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to support research in global health policy and systems research. Funding opportunities are available between June 2019 and September ... Read more
The Council of Europe has published a report on prison management and organisation, authored by Jorg Pont and Timothy Harding. Read more
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global public health problem in correctional settings. Due to the intersection of substance use disorders and the criminal justice ...
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