Session 3A. Gender differences in the burden of infectious diseases in prison
Tracks
Track 1
| Wednesday, September 30, 2026 |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Diamond 1 |
Speaker
Dr Ehab Salah
Programme Coordinator
UNODC
UNODC Technical Brief on Violence and Health in Prisons
1:30 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Ehab is a medical doctor specialized in Medical Epidemiology, and for more than 25 years conducted infectious disease research, prevention and treatment. He has extensive experience in advocating for, developing, and implementing public health policies and programs, with particular focus on health of people in prisons at global, regional and country levels.
Amy Zheng
Research Fellow
Boston University School Of Public Health
Behavioral and structural risk factors underlying male-female disparities in tuberculosis burden: An analysis of Brazil’s National Tuberculosis Disease Registry from 2015-2022
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Amy Zheng is a post-doctoral research fellow. Her research is focused on tuberculosis and HIV among vulnerable populations.
Dr. Lena Faust
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Sex differences in sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections among people incarcerated in Quebec provincial prisons
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Lena Faust is an infectious disease epidemiologist interested in the carceral setting as a social/environmental determinant of health. Her postdoctoral work, focusing on prisons, has spanned tuberculosis (at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and more recently STBBIs (at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre).
Amy Zheng
Research Fellow
Boston University School Of Public Health
Contribution of incarceration to tuberculosis incidence the male-female disparity in tuberculosis burden: A global analysis
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Amy Zheng's research is focused on leveraging novel epidemiological methods to understand the risk of tuberculosis among vulnerable populations including people who are incarcerated.
Dr Emily Dauria
Faculty
School Of Public Health, University Of Pittsburgh
kINSHIP: A Peer Navigation Pilot RCT to Improve PrEP Linkage Among Women Impacted by the Criminal Legal System: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Outcomes
2:45 PM - 3:00 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
3:00 PM - 3:00 PMBiography