ACCJH Conference 2025

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The Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, hosted by ACCJH and supported by ForHealth Consulting at UMass Chan Medical School, is an annual peer-reviewed conference that highlights emerging research and policy across the criminal legal field and supports the ACCJH mission to improve evidence-based practices and policies to improve the health of justice-involved populations. It is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers, clinicians, public health experts and policymakers to meet this objective.

While the conference accepts proposed presentations or posters for consideration that address a wide array of topics at the intersection of health and criminal legal systems, we are interested in patterns, experiences and outcomes of health service utilization in populations involved in the criminal legal system, including care provided during incarceration and both during and after community reentry. We welcome presentations on ways to effectively address the complex needs of individuals impacted by the criminal legal system

The three-day conference draws participants from more than 150 academic institutions, correctional, healthcare, and policy agencies from around the world.

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Participants will know and/or be able to:

  • Learn about emerging research at the intersection of health and the criminal-legal systems and gain skills in applied research and cross-disciplinary and systems collaboration
  • Network with a multidisciplinary group of attendees interested in learning and sharing criminal-legal health practices
  • Gain new skills to develop academic-criminal legal health partnerships and overcome barriers to research in your agency
  • Learn from individuals with lived experience and those working in academic and community agencies
  • Reflect on emerging health policy issues in criminal-legal health

The 2025 AACJH Conference Planning Committee Includes:

  • Alysse Wurcel, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Brian McGregor, PhD, Morehouse School of Medicine
  • Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, Associate Professor, Duke Medical School
  • Meaghan Dupuis, LMHC, Executive Director, Justice, Health, & Equity, UMass Chan Medical School
  • Ekaterina Pivovarova, PhD, Academic Director, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School
  • Sarah Bakanosky, Academic Programs and Training Manager, Justice, Health, & Equity, UMass Chan Medical School
The intended audience for this conference is researchers, clinicians, administrators, students, educators, policy makers, grant funding leaders and community advocates.

Please check back soon for a list of our 2025 AACJH Scholarship recipients!

  • 60-Minute Oral Presentations: 60-minute presentations will be accepted for panels and workshops. We encourage groups working cross-disciplinarily and cross-institutionally to facilitate workshop presentations.
  • 20-Minute Oral Presentations: 15-minute presentations with 5 minutes devoted to Q&A focused on completed research, research in progress, findings from program evaluation or quality improvement projects.
  • 8-Minute Oral Presentations: 6-minute presentations with 2 minutes Q&A on completed research, research in progress, findings from program evaluation, or quality improvement projects.
  • Poster Presentations: The poster format may be used for submissions of research results or other types of communications, e.g., policy, works in progress, research methods, practice transformation, and program evaluation/quality improvement techniques.

Registration

Please visit this page to register for the 2025 conference. Registration is available through March 1st and pricing is available below:

  • Individuals: $850.00
  • Student: $600.00

Registration cancellations will be allowed through Friday, February 28. Refunds will be subject to a $100 cancellation fee. Please reach out to aacjh@umassmed.edu if you have questions or would like to request a refund.

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18th ACCJH Conference
Marriott Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin, TX

Sponsoring Organizations

Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health, a member organization owned and operated by the Justice, Health, & Equity Program, ForHealth Consulting, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

CME Accreditation Statement

The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement

The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Conference Evaluation
In order to receive continuing education credits from the 18th Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, attendees must fill out this conference application by April 09, 2025.

Nursing

This offering meets the requirements for 20.5 contact hours for nurses as specified by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244-CMR 5.04). Each nurse should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Psychology
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The University of Massachusetts Medical School maintains responsibility for the program and its content. This program is being offered for 15 continuing education credits (CE) for psychologists.

Anthony Ray Hinton
Photo credit: Rob Liggins

ACCJH 2025 Keynote: “The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice” – Anthony Ray Hinton

One of the longest serving death row prisoners in Alabama history and among the longest serving condemned prisoners to be freed after presenting evidence of innocence, Mr. Hinton was the 152nd person exonerated from death row since 1983. He wrote an acclaimed book on his experiences and is excited to share his life story at ACCJH 2025 on Monday March 17th.

Anthony Ray Hinton survived for 30 years on Alabama’s death row. His story is a decades-long journey to exoneration and freedom. In 1985, Mr. Hinton was convicted of the unsolved murders of two fast-food restaurant managers based on the testimony of ballistics experts for the State who claimed that the crime bullets came from a dusty revolver found in Mr. Hinton’s mother’s closet. Without the benefit of a competent expert to challenge the State’s theory (Mr. Hinton’s lawyer hired a ballistics expert who was blind in one eye), an all-white jury convicted Mr. Hinton and he was sentenced to death. After years of petitioning to have the revolver re-analyzed, three independent experts concluded that the bullets could not have been fired from his mother’s revolver. With the assistance of the Equal Justice Initiative, led by attorney Bryan Stevenson, Mr. Hinton was freed in 2015. Since his release, Mr. Hinton has traveled the world sharing his story and discussing the changes that need to be made to prevent similar injustices from happening to other people. In 2018, Mr. Hinton published The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, which was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and is a New York Times bestseller. In 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Bonaventure University, and in 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Emory University.

ACCJH 2025 Plenary Panel: “Pharmacoequity in Carceral Settings” (Tuesday, March 18, 8:30 am)

ACCJH is proud to dedicate time and space during this year’s conference to explore pharmacoequity. Pharmacoequity is a term describing an aspect of health equity focusing on improving equitable access to evidence-based medications. This panel brings together people with lived experience of incarceration, lawyers and clinicians to discuss the barriers and opportunities for working towards pharmacoequity in carceral settings.

This plenary session will be moderated by ACCJH board member Louise Reagan and features the following panelists:

Laura Hawks, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

Rebekah Joab, Esq., Legal Action Center

Chiteara Thomas, Advocate & Mentor;  Violence Prevention Coordinator, The Teen Empowerment Center

The 18th annual conference is at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel in Austin, TX

While the conference schedule is jam-packed with interesting sessions and networking opportunities, you may want to explore a bit of Austin while you are here. Austin is renowned for its amazing music scene, food, events, outdoor activities, and more. 

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