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AG Holder invites professor to summit
John Violanti, professor of social and preventive medicine in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, is participating in a Law Enforcement Executives Summit on June 27 at the invitation of U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
The summit is being held to discuss challenges and future directions related to policing in the new economy, procedural justice and officer wellness and safety. It takes place at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington.
Violanti, who served with the New York State Police for 23 years, is an expert on issues related to police officer wellness and safety. For more than two decades, he has been involved in designing, implementing and analyzing police stress and health studies, focusing on assessment of psychological and biological indicators of chronic police stress and trauma, subclinical cardiovascular and metabolic disease in police, shift work and health, and the epidemiology of police suicide.
Violanti also is the principal investigator on the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress study, an ongoing National Institutes of Health-funded investigation, which is one of the first population-based studies to integrate psychological, physiological and subclinical measures of stress, disease and mental health status.
According to the invitation, Holder is convening the conference to generate a national conversation on issues facing law enforcement departments as they operate with less fiscal capacity. Public perceptions of fair treatment in police conduct, along with the policies, practices and technologies that protect law enforcement personnel, will be discussed as well.
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