Stuart Kinner
PhD MAICD
BC, CANADAThe audience will be challenged to fundamentally rethink how the criminal justice system impacts on human rights, public health, public safety, and public spending.
Professor Stuart Kinner BA(Hons) PhD MAICD
Stuart is a globally recognised research and thought leader on the health of justice-involved people — children and adults who are arrested and incarcerated. His work has influenced policy and thinking about the role of the criminal justice system in driving social exclusion and inequity, and the opportunities inherent in this system to simultaneously improve public health and public safety.
Stuart led the health chapter in the landmark UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, which was presented to the UN General Assembly in 2019. He serves on the Steering Group for the World Health Organization (WHO) Health in Prisons Programme, and the Steering Committee for the Worldwide Prison Health Research and Engagement Network (WEPHREN). His research group was academic partner in the 1st Global Conference on Health in Detention, hosted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva in 2022. Stuart gave an invited keynote address at this meeting, and continues to work closely with ICRC on detention health issuers. His work influences health and criminal justice policy in Australia and internationally.
Stuart is Founding Head of the Justice Health Group, an internationally recognised research collaboration spanning Curtin University and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia. He also holds an Honorary appointment at The University of Melbourne, and in 2019 was a Visiting Professor at The University of British Columbia in Canada.
Stuart has produced more than 350 publications and attracted >$37 million in research funding to support his team’s work.
Stuart speaks regularly at national and international meetings, often by invitation. During his career he has given >330 presentations, more than half of these by invitation. He has presented by invitation at national and international meetings held in Australia, Canada, the United States, Scotland, Poland, Fiji, Singapore, and Switzerland.
Stuart is a skilled and experienced media commentator, and his research has featured in diverse outlets from Al Jazeera to The Economist.
Professor Stuart Kinner BA(Hons) PhD MAICD
Stuart is a globally recognised research and thought leader on the health of justice-involved people — children and adults who are arrested and incarcerated. His work has influenced policy and thinking about the role of the criminal justice system in driving social exclusion and inequity, and the opportunities inherent in this system to simultaneously improve public health and public safety.
Stuart led the health chapter in the landmark UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, which was presented to the UN General Assembly in 2019. He serves on the Steering Group for the World Health Organization (WHO) Health in Prisons Programme, and the Steering Committee for the Worldwide Prison Health Research and Engagement Network (WEPHREN). His research group was academic partner in the 1st Global Conference on Health in Detention, hosted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva in 2022. Stuart gave an invited keynote address at this meeting, and continues to work closely with ICRC on detention health issuers. His work influences health and criminal justice policy in Australia and internationally.
Stuart is Founding Head of the Justice Health Group, an internationally recognised research collaboration spanning Curtin University and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia. He also holds an Honorary appointment at The University of Melbourne, and in 2019 was a Visiting Professor at The University of British Columbia in Canada.
Stuart has produced more than 350 publications and attracted >$37 million in research funding to support his team’s work.
Stuart speaks regularly at national and international meetings, often by invitation. During his career he has given >330 presentations, more than half of these by invitation. He has presented by invitation at national and international meetings held in Australia, Canada, the United States, Scotland, Poland, Fiji, Singapore, and Switzerland.
Stuart is a skilled and experienced media commentator, and his research has featured in diverse outlets from Al Jazeera to The Economist.
