Session 2A. Reforming prison health policy - for better or worse
Tracks
Track 1
| Wednesday, September 30, 2026 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Diamond 1 |
Speaker
Dr Kerri Viney
Team Lead
World Health Organization
WHO Guidance on the Prevention and Management of Tuberculosis among People in Prisons
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Dr Kerri Viney is a Team Lead in the Department for HIV, Tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) at the World Health Organization. She oversees the Department’s work on comorbidities and determinants of HIV, TB, hepatitis and STIs. Supported by a highly skilled team, she is overseeing the development of WHO’s guidance on TB prevention and care in prisons.
Dr Emily Shaw
Consultant In Infectious Diseases
UK Health Security Agency; Hospital For Tropical Diseases, London; University College London Hospitals
Introduction and Implementation in England of New, National Guidance for Detection and Management of Tuberculosis in Prisons and Places of Detention and it's Evaluation.
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Dr Emily Shaw is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine with expertise in Tuberculosis. She delivers care at Hospital for Tropical Diseases and University College London Hospital and holds a joint appointment on the national TB Unit, UK Health Security Agency, where she leads on TB in prisons.
MD, Ph.D Marianne Alanko Blomé
MD, Ph.D
Region Skane
The central role of prisons in elimination of hepatitis C in southern Sweden
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
MAB is an ID physician, the medical supervisor for the Malmo needle syringe program, assistant county medical officer and chairman of the hepatitis elimination team in Skane Region.
Dr Emily Dauria
Faculty
School Of Public Health, University Of Pittsburgh
Public Transparency of County Jail Release Policies in Pennsylvania, USA: Implications for Infectious Disease Continuity of Care
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
Dr. Dauria directs the Just Health Collaborative, a research program dedicated to ending health inequities among individuals surveilled or impacted by the criminal legal system. Using community-engaged and mixed methods, her team studies structural drivers of substance use, sexual/reproductive health, and violence inequities, and develops interventions to address them.
Formalities
Q&A
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMBiography