JHD

Our mission is to strengthen justice, health, and democracy in all communities by forging partnerships among researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders to deliver ethics-based, impactful, and timely solutions to urgent public problems... With this goal in mind, the Justice, Health, and Democracy Impact Initiative launched in 2015. In its earliest days, it was a research network, supported by the Ford Foundation, that focused on trying to accelerate a transition from a criminalization framework to a public health framework for tackling hard public problems such as substance use disorder. To do this work, we assembled a multi-disciplinary team of scholars-from law, public health, medicine, philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, and policy. We partnered with practitioners, most importantly the Police-Assisted Addiction Recovery Initiative (PAARI) to clarify the questions that needed answers if municipalities were to achieve better outcomes in responding to substance use..

Primary location: Cambridge United States