…I wanted to be and that I wanted to obtain a master’s in public health. So, I enrolled in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This was the…

Dr. Maria Restrepo-Ruiz Dr. Maria (Mayte) Restrepo-Ruiz is a Research Associate with the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She completed her PhD work in the…

…going to be interesting. We are seeing conversations about how to define public safety. Typically, the first thing you think about public safety is law enforcement. But when you talk…

…public safety is to invest in law enforcement is just pushing us further down the path toward a police state, where the only public safety we have is purchased and…

…School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley). Targeting Institutional Risk Factors to Reduce Patient Violence Yolana Pringle (Humanities, Roehampton University). Political Violence and Mental Health in Africa, 1970s-90s Molly Pucci…

…the cops while doing it. I think the position of the public keeps shifting because of the rise in violence. I don’t think that the public dislikes or rejects the…

…they sometimes forget about the importance of working with the public. In a democracy, you need the consent of the public. It’s hard for individuals to provide this kind of…

…Harar, Ethiopia Maria Restrepo-Ruiz (Public Health, University of Connecticut). Intimate Partner Violence in Armed Conflict Contexts: The Case of Colombia Matthew Simonson (Network Science, Northeastern University). Kill a Stranger, Save…

…“Reporting on Gun Violence: Engaging the Public on the Issues.” The symposium will offer a series of discussions with experts, public officials, and journalists exploring gun violence, a critical public safety and public health issue…

…important. So help me think through what we should be doing about public urination, aggressive panhandling, public drinking, and the kinds of cases that we used to call quality-of-life offending….