Beyond Do No Harm Principles Session #7: Infectious Disease & Criminalization

Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #9, how health care providers can stop participating in or supporting prosecution in cases of transmission of infectious diseases.

Speakers: Kenyon Farrow, S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal (The Center for HIV Law & Policy), and Shira Eisler, MD (Detroit Public Health STD Clinic).

Event Recording

Graphic Notes

Illustrated by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman

Image Description: Graphic Notes by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman. Beyond Do No Harm Session 7: Infectious Disease and Criminalization. Kenyon Farrow, S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal, Dr. Shira Heisler. 1. Criminalization of Infectious Diseases is Not New, often blamed on marginalized communites. Ex: “Witches,” women, BIPOC, Immigrants. 2. Criminalization is embedded into public health frameworks, ex. “Disease surveillance.” Next section is under the heading “As a provider, what can I do?”. “Provider” is circled, with the text, “expansive definition - case manager, social workers, nurses, doctors, etc.” Under is text: “Build knowledge of state by state distinctions in laws (CHLP’s Source Book), Be a "‘medical expert’ for cases,” “Leverage your degree to on behalf of people being criminalized for health issues, Build relationships with D.I.S. workers, Train public health workers on how to fight a subpoena, learn more about harm reduction, get involved in a campaign. The next heading is “Where can I plug in?” with the text, “Use Interrupting Criminalization’s Pod Toolkit!, Support the Center for HIV Law and Policy, Check out CHLP’s State by State Source Book, Join the campaign for a moratorium on molecular surveillance!”