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Oral Presentation

Public Health and Health Policy

PHHP 17 - Communicable Diseases in Carceral Settings Bring Opportunities for Change and Public Health Interventions

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

2:15 PM – 2:35 PM MST

Location: North Room 122

CME Credits: 0.2
CNE Credits: 0.2

Presenter(s)

Janene Gumz-Pulaski, MBA, BSN, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP (she/her/hers)

Infection Prevention Program Manager
Indiana Department of Health
Laporte, Indiana

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Co-Author(s)

Brandon Halleck, BS (he/him/his)

Correctional Health Epidemiologist
Indiana Department of Health

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Bethany L. Lavender, RN, MPH (she/her/hers)

Infection Prevention Epidemiologist
Indiana Department of Health
Tucson, Arizona

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Moderator(s)

Noreen Mollon, MS, CIC, FAPIC (she/her/hers)

Manager, Infection Prevention & Epidemiology (IPE)
University of Michigan Health
Ann Arbor, Michigan

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Learning Objectives:

How an communicable disease outbreak in a correctional facilities bring change to infection control practices.
Challenges with development and implementation of the correctional ICAR.
The future of adapting more infection prevention routines in correctional facilities.