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Listen to Jesse Young on Australia’s Radio National on his work published in the Lancet looking at the high rates of injury and harm rates of people with co-occurring substance misuse and mental illness on release from prison.
Jesse is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate in the Centre for Mental Health and Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne. He holds adjunct appointments in the School of Population Health at The University of Western Australia and the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University. Jesse’s research focusses on the health experiences of people with mental health problems, intellectual disability and/or other complex needs, with a particular focus on people who have come into contact with the criminal justice system.
The publication that the radio interview focuses on can be found here