The 8th International Conference on Law Enforcement & Public Health

Vulnerability, policing and public health

6 - 9 September 2026
University of Leeds, UK

About the Conference

The Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA) and the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre will jointly host the 8th International Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference, LEPH2026 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK from 6-9 September 2026.

Following highly successful conferences in North America, Africa and Europe, the 2026 global event in Leeds presents a unique opportunity to spotlight global research and world-leading practice across law enforcement and public health. The 2026 overarching theme will be vulnerability, policing and public health.

The conference will be open to law enforcement and public health agencies, national and local governments, relevant research bodies, academic institutes, policy makers as well as the commercial sector and other partner organisations. Bringing these diverse communities and perspectives together, the conference presents an ideal space for sharing and learning about new approaches, instigating and developing real change in practice, based on the best available evidence internationally.

Full details - conference website ...

My source: Culling followers on Twitter '0 posts', last post years ago ...X may have been accepted legally as a signature, but it might denote injury, illness, or illiteracy. Twitter diehards really are in a 'graveyard'. And yet, amidst the tombstones, I found a POLITICAL care domain gem in @LEPH2026, which led me to @GLEPHAssoc. I will follow when allowed.

Previously: 'law' : 'vulnerability' : 'public health'

Careif report: The Health Needs of the Indo-Caribbean Community in the United Kingdom

'The Indo-Caribbean community has played a key part in the life of the United Kingdom, but this has not often been recognised. Little is known about this populations’ physical and mental health needs and its experience of health and social services in the UK.

This report, The Health Needs of the Indo-Caribbean Community in the United Kingdom, examines the history of the Indo-Caribbean community in the UK, the prevalence of mental health conditions among the community, barriers to accessing mental health services, and the existing services available.'



Includes:

"The absence of a unique category designating ‘Indo-Caribbean’ as a unique category in the UK Census was identified as a major barrier to obtaining vital epidemiological data on the UK’s Indo-Caribbean population."

Above text:
https://www.careif.org/news-and-events/2025-10-9-careif-report-the-health-needs-of-the-indo-caribbean-community-in-the-united-kingdom

n.b. 
In my community mental health nursing career in Chorley, Preston, and West Lancashire as services were established, the diversity of the local populations was evident, but there was an assumption that many communities were essentially 'closed': one explanation for lack of referrals from specific racialised communities - was that some communities 'looked-after their own'.

Of course this can be racism (acute or subtle), an excuse for inaction, delayed response, lack of action - outreach and translation services. There were marked examples of intervention. I have seen first-hnad interpreting and translation services in action since full-time retirement and the services offered are amazing for the insights and care delivery they can facilitate. Is this why we also need mental health nurses and the team? To translate in challenging circumstances, even by being there, seeking avenues, giving time - especially in instances of psychoses and doing so safely (for all)?

In addition to the main body of Careif's report and its recommendations, it may be helpful to consider the report's key terms relating them to the domains of Hodges' model? I also note reference to the bio-medical model as an explanatory framework. A conference abstract has been submitted today for April 2026, highlighting the need for bio-psycho-socio-political model / framework (Hodges' model - of course?).

See also:

RCN North West Multicultural Group

Multicultural Group (NWMG) NW Region - RCN

There is a group that that may be of interest, even if you are not located in the NW of England. If located elsewhere, perhaps you can help start a group in your respective region, and together mobilise and liaise with groups internationally. The group is also on WhatsApp, and Facebook; the website's introduction begins ...

The RCN North West Multicultural Group (NWMG) creates a community for members across the region from multicultural ethnic backgrounds to connect with each other, share their lived experience, knowledge and diverse ideas that help drive change around racism to ensure that their various organisations is the best place to work.

Membership is open to RCN members of Royal College of Nursing from multicultural backgrounds and their allies.

Mission statement: 

The aim of the North West Multicultural Group is to stand against racism and discrimination by using members lived experiences, encouraging organisations to be anti-racist and with the support of allies.  ...

 

Source and continued... https://www.rcn.org.uk/northwest/Get-Involved/NW-Multicultural-Group

The Flying Cholitas c/o Luisa Dörr

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THE FLYING CHOLITAS

"In traditional Bolivian dress, on the outskirts of El Alto, the Flying Cholitas launch themselves at each other. At first, I was fascinated by the skill of these indigenous women flying through the air, reclaiming the clothing their community was forced to wear as servants for Spanish occupiers. But then I saw it went beyond the ring. They are fighting for their rights, for recognition, for equality. They're fighting for their lives." Luisa Dörr 

This image, would also 'sit' in the POLITICAL domain, if the women would stay still; but they clearly have individual and collective purpose.

My source:

Luisa Dörr ON THE FLYING CHOLITAS (2019). The Daily Telegraph, 4 March, 2023. p.9.

[Please note: I contacted Luisa Dörr, seeking permission to use the photograph above, but received no response.]

See also:

'What We See: Women and Nonbinary Perspectives Through the Lens' (White Lion, £22). 

Details: womenphotograph.com

Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity

“Race matters in England. So too does class. So too does voice.”


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Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity	Race Class Voice
Race Class Voice	Voice Class Race

Aladesuyi, O. (2021) A map of pain and privilege. Life&Arts. FTWeekend. 6-7 March 2021. p.10.

 

Owusu, N. (2021) Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity. London: Sceptre.

See also:

https://mixedracestudies.org/?p=60498

https://gal-dem.com/nadia-owusu-aftershocks-extract/
(site available but now closed).

Book: "In Search of Mary Seacole"

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Mary	In Search of Mary Seacole
Seacole "Known by the British Troops in Crimea as 'Mother Seacole', she was a nurse, pharmacist, humanitarian, businesswoman and patriot."	The Turkish Order of the Medjidie French Legion of Honour British Crimea Medal

 

Photo taken in Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, 19th February 2022.

Owolade, T. (2022) The myth of Mother Seacole, Culture, The Sunday Times, 13 February, p.22.

 

Carvalho - "The Paths to Narrow Identities" 2021

"The Dasgupta-Goyal Model of Narrow Identities"

Seeking the logic(s) in the 'health career' model

  

 

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"DG recognize that narrow identities form through social interactions and that groups play an important role in this process. This is a major advance. Because narrow identities are an equilibrium phenomenon they cannot be undone through individual will and right thinking alone. Specifically, DG’s model consists of a finite population of individuals, N, and two groups, A and B. Individuals and groups are ex ante identical. Individuals can choose to join one or both of the groups. Only the extensive margin (membership) is considered, not the time or effort devoted to each group. The payoff from joining group k ∈{A, B} is increasing in the size of group k and is also a function of the size of the other group k′ ≠ k. An individual i is said to have a narrow identity if i joins only one of the groups. Society can be said to have narrow identities when each individual i ∈ N joins exactly one group. Note that narrow identities can exist in a monomorphic equilibrium (where all individuals join one group) or a polymorphic equilibrium (where different individuals join different groups)." p.79.

 

Jean-Paul Carvalho. The Paths to Narrow Identities. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics,Volume 14, Issue 2,Winter 2021, pp. 77–86. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v14i2.615 

The above paper is part of an "ARTICLE SYMPOSIUM on “Narrow Identities”.

'health career' - life chances. 

My source: @PhilosL @LiverpoolPhilos

 

Caleb's Crossing ... "Harvard's native son"

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Image used with the written permission of the artist, Stephen Coit.  All rights reserved.
	"Caleb's Crossing"

 

 

Mr Stephen Coit, the artist who produced the portrait above, also emailed ...

"Here are some notes on the painting that you might find interesting:

-- For Caleb's face, I used images of the earliest photographs I could find -- well over 100 years old -- of young men Caleb's age who were members of the Wampanoag Aquinnah on the Vineyard.  These would have been taken before intermarriage happened with any frequency with other groups.  While I was visiting their headquarters in Martha's Vineyard, the tribe elders uncovered and gave me permission to use these images for this project.  There are no extant images of Caleb's actual appearance anywhere that I could find at Harvard or anywhere else.

-- I planned for this to appear as if Caleb's portrait had been commissioned the year of his graduation, 1665.  In that era, many early colonial era leaders likely went to Europe to have portraits done, and they were often painted in a Dutch style after Rembrandt.  See John Eliot's portrait painted in 1659, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eliot_(missionary).)  Note that Rembrandt died four years after Caleb graduated.

-- Seeking a Dutch painter of that era to inspire Caleb's portrait, I noticed that Girl with Pearl Earring by Vermeer was done the same year as Caleb's graduation, 1665. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring)  Because I love Vermeer and his work, I chose to portray Caleb's drawing on the style of Vermeer, specifically using the light, setting and composition of Vermeer's, The Milkmaid.  The table, the book, the Turkish tapestry over the table in the portrait all confirm to Dutch portraiture conventions.

-- The bag on the wall is a portrayal of "Caleb's bag" in Harvard's Peabody Museum (https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/495.)

-- The map on the wall, again drawing on the style of Vermeer, is a map of Martha's Vineyard from the late 1600's showing the region on that island where Caleb was from.  

-- Caleb's dress, his hair style and his collar were as accurate for that era as I could determine.  

-- The room is plausibly a room in the Indian College at Harvard with morning light coming in to Harvard Yard from the southeast.  I wondered whether the leaded window panes would be rectangular or diamond shaped; an architectural historian assured me they could have been either.

-- The one element that would not have been a Dutch convention was the quill in Caleb's hand.  For Caleb's quill, honoring his history and tradition, he and I chose a turkey quill."

 

My sincere thanks to Mr Coit for permission to use the above image.

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This post came together for me as there is a nurse theory group:

https://nursology.net/

Their online meetings begin as follows:

1. Introductions of Members

1. Pronouns and Land Acknowledgement.
   If you are unfamiliar what land you are on, please check the following link https://native-land.ca/

For e.g.

"Guest on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people, specifically the Nisqually and Squaxin Island peoples."

Living in England and a 'Jones' I mentioned a Celtic heritage (assumed - I should add) and awareness of Welsh valley flooding to create reservoirs (and in England - in the Lake District).

https://www.lake-vyrnwy.com/history.html

 

As for all at present, continuing to sort papers I came across the above newspaper cutting from 2011:

 

Dunn, P. Harvard's native son, The (Sunday?) Times, 16 April, 2011, p.11.

 

Book cover source: https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-us

 

Please read this post anti-political-wise ...

... but do read and reflect ...

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Do I leave to alert the World to what is happening, including crimes against humanity? Or ...	My location The location of my family
... Do I stay to protect my family? Race, Minorities, Ethnicity Cultural background / heritage	Human rights UN - Crimes against humanity Prosecution

Yes, the State sees me,

only too well ...

you see, my people and I -

our culture are in its sights.

Do you see me?

My source:

The News ...

Cate Blanchett: What is statelessness? | #iBelong UNHCR

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My mental health I	Geography Maps of Identity - Maps of States Borders Location of parent's birth; my birth My physical health
Belong families social inclusion / exclusion relationships SOCIO-economics SOCIAL capital Quality of Lfe Cultural background / heritage

My source:

https://twitter.com/Refugees/status/1289470924865933313?s=20

'Dumping': Waste and Ethics?

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Individual: general literacy health literacy economic literacy ... ... Individual: morality, values, integrity ...	"South Africa's Northern Cape is one of the most ethnographically unique locations on Earth. It is home to the San people, a nomadic hunter-gatherer group that carries some of the oldest human DNA." p.90.
The SAN people "Our knowledge has been taken by clever people who come and tempt us -	TRUST Project 'National' ethics standards -  with 10 rand or five rand." p.90.

The Centre for Professional Ethics, UCLAN.

Perryer, S. Foreign Bodies, The New Economy, Spring/Summer 2019, pp.90-93.

Knowles, T. Ancestry firm uses DNA of customers to develop drug. The Times, January 14th, 2020. p.4.

Happy New Year: Nostradamus c/o Al Stewart

"A Man for All Seasons" ...
"A Woman ... and other gender identities ..."
"A Child ..."
"A model ..."

"A model for Past, Present, Future"

A series of Frames - Janus-like view:

Pre-morbid, Diagnosis, Prognosis ...

Clinical and Case -
Assessment
Planning
Formulation
Evaluation
Engagement

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Nostradamus - Al Stewart
From the Album: Past, Present, Future

Seeking Care & Global Cultural Neutrality in White Houses(?)

The email concerned a book
- | White Houses | -
 and posed a question.

Needless to say it caught my attention ...

Is White a Statement or a Neutral Surface for Expression?

This is a question I ask myself, but in respect of Hodges' model.

To what extent is Hodges' model neutral across cultures?

Remove the green, blue and red colours I adopted for the care domains  and what you have is a blank sheet; an empty conceptual space.

Is it empty? 

Very quickly it can become filled with what the person, patient, client, group ... brings with them.

Hodges' model is a stage. Several stages.

It is a theater.

It is a challenge for the performer, as they take their turn. As they navigate the space, they seek to ensure, assure, obtain feedback that the other - listener(s) are with them; whether in agreement or not.
Hodges' model is an arena for personal, group reflection, debate, argument(ation) or as described these days - co-production.

How suitable is #h2cm as a tool to support global health objectives, such as, the Social Development Goals and the Social Determinants of Health (and their ongoing development)? For me, Hodges' model is not just a neutral surface, it is a neutral substrate for the many forms of knowledge needed to solve the problems of the 21st Century.

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	Polite House, Trondheim, Norway, 2012. JVA. The house appears to be made of three stacked and slightly skewed volumes, with touches of colour inside contrasting with the white walls. Photographer credit: © Lars Evanger

My source: Thames & Hudson

Later in the summer - autumn I might post another photo in memory of my father and a holiday ...

Ethnicity - Pay Gap: in Hodges' model

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ETHNICITY -	PAY GAPS

Book: "The Healing Next Time"

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"Roy McFarlane’s second poetry collection, The Healing Next Time, is a timely and unparalleled book of interwoven sequences on institutional racism, deaths in custody and of a life story set against the ever-changing backdrop of Birmingham at the turn of the millennium. Here forms a potent and resolute narrative in lyrical and multidimensional poems which refuse to look the other way or accept the whitewashed version of events."

TIME

healing

Roy McFarlane, "The Healing Next Time"

Book cover artwork: Barbara Walker

My source: Richard Booth Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye

India: Health needs of manual scavengers: Does our health system care?

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SELF “In India, a man is not a scavenger  because of his work. He is a scavenger because of his birth irrespective  of the question whether  he does scavenging or not.” – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar	WORLD other Three forms of manual scavenging: 1. removal of human excrement from public streets and dry latrines; 2. cleaning septic tanks; 3. cleaning gutters and sewers. Health risks & risk of death  Reported: 1 death every 5 days Infectious diseases Respiratory diseases Musculo-skeletal Carbon monoxide and methane poisoning Safety, Protective equipment?
OTHERS "Dalits of specific sub-caste and is an archetype of the oppressive legacy of the  hierarchical Hindu varna system"	WORLD others International Labour Organisation The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act (1993) Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act (2013) International Dalit Solidarity Network National Safai Karmachari Commission Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Original source: twitter
https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2018/12/health-needs-of-manual-scavengers-does-our-health-system-care

The power of words ii

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Educate
	Re-Educate

Njideka Akunyili Crosby - “À la Warhol"

NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY (Nigerian, b. 1983), “À la Warhol,” circa 2005-06

My source: Gerlis, M. FTWeekend, Merry-go-round of the fairs, Collecting|Arts, 7-8 April 2018. p.15.

Image source: Title link.

The power of words

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veil	sur-veil

Paper: Understanding the micro and macro politics of health [Mapped to h2cm]

"Almost a decade after WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health published its influential report (2008), health inequalities within and across countries remain high on the research agenda. Acknowledging the complexity of the issue, scholars increasingly stress the need for the development of a theoretical framework that will integrate the multiple factors involved in shaping health inequalities, from individual social positions and experiences to institutions (Beckfield et al., 2015; Krieger, 2012, 2011)." p.92.

From Google:

intersectionality

ɪntəsɛkʃəˈnalɪti

noun

noun: intersectionality; plural noun: intersectionalities

1. the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

   
   

   "through an awareness of intersectionality, we can better acknowledge and ground the differences among us"

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category salience and individual experience "Intersectionality as an analytical tool of social stratification (Yuval-Davis, 2015) challenges the idea of a single, fixed social hierarchy. It perceives social positioning as a spot within a matrix of intersecting power axes (Crenshaw, 1992). Hence, there are no sociological categories (e.g. race, gender) that have an a priori greater significance in shaping individual experience." p.93. qualitative

methods & methodology analysis - synthesis "Yuval-Davis (2015) elaborates on that and describes intersectionality as a context informed analytical tool (situated intersectionality) that focuses on the categories that reflect the social divisions shaping most people's lives (e.g. race and gender) in certain contexts and simultaneously it is sensitive enough to render visible other divisions shaping the experience of individuals and groups at marginal positions (e.g. sexuality)." p.93. quantitative

race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality social history  social class social exclusion   stratification "... intersections between social categories - socio

"Studies have focused mainly on welfare states classified across certain typologies (eg. Esping-Andersen, 1990) as mechanisms that rank people into social hierarchies and (re)distribute social determinants of health." p.94. Institutions, immigrant status political minority struggle  colonisation, enslavement are .. reflections of intersecting systems of power" p.94 economic

Anna Gkiouleka, Tim Huijts, Jason Beckfield, Clare Bambra, Understanding the micro and macro politics of health: Inequalities, intersectionality & institutions - A research agenda, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 200, 2018, 92-98, ISSN 0277-9536.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.025.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795361830025X)
Keywords: Health inequalities; Intersectionality; Institutions; Health politics; Social positioning


My source: Prof. Dennis Raphael
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