Battling Blood in the Streets: How Can Neuroscience Promote Public Health and Support Public Policy to Prevent Community Violence?

2016 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Open House follows this session in the HLS Pub, 1st floor, Wasserstein Hall.

Far too many people across the country are left dead, injured, or traumatized by community violence. Communities can be safer when neuroscience, public health strategies, and collective advocacy are aligned in practice and policy. What are the best next steps to fostering a broad science-informed advocacy movement to effectively address community violence?

Panelists
•    Michelle Bosquet Enlow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Associate in Psychology, Boston Children's Hospital; 
     Affiliated Faculty, Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
•    Shannon Cosgrove, MPH, Director of Health Policy, Cure Violence
•    Fatimah Loren Muhammad, Director, Trauma Advocacy Initiative, Equal Justice USA
•    Moderator: Charles Homer, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,
     U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

Part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a collaboration between the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.