PRISON MEDICINE.
Healthcare beyond the walls we usually see.
Behind prison walls, medicine becomes inseparable from vulnerability, inequality, mental health and human rights.
MEET DR. KATE WOOD ↓WHO GETS TO BE A PATIENT?
A prison sentence does not remove the need for healthcare.
Providing healthcare in prisons means navigating an environment shaped by security, social exclusion, addiction, mental illness and inequality.
HEALTH DOES NOT EXIST IN A VACUUM.
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatric vulnerability, isolation and incarceration.
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Poverty, addiction, trauma and inequality.
ACCESS TO CARE
Healthcare within an institution structured around security.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Medical responsibility regardless of where care is provided.
iMED SESSION SPEAKER
DR. KATE WOOD
PRISON HEALTHCARE · GLOBAL HEALTH
Medicine at the intersection of healthcare and social exclusion.
Dr. Kate Wood's work spans prison healthcare, mental health, global health and medical anthropology.
Her experience provides a perspective shaped not only by clinical practice, but also by research and cross-cultural experience.