Beyond Do No Harm Events
At Beyond Do No Harm, we’ve had an incredible line up of events and speakers discussing when, where, why, and how health care providers are working to interrupt criminalization. We’re excited to be able to compile some of the event resources for you below - recordings, graphic notes, and more materials that we hope are helpful. Please scroll through this page to view more information about each event, but a compiled list is below.
September 22, 2023: Principles Session #8: Identification Documents & Criminalization
September 18, 2023: Principles Session #7: Infectious Disease & Criminalization
July 27, 2023: Principles Session #6: Drug Policy
June 12, 2023: Principles Session #5: Self Managed & Community Care
May 31, 2023: Principles Session #4: Refusing Carceral Collaborations
April 13, 2023: Principles Session #3: End Mandated Reporting
March 29, 2023: Principles Session #2: Non Punitive Health Care Response
February 22, 2023: Principles Session #1: Cops Out of Care
November 3, 2022: Beyond Do No Harm Principles Release Party!
June 30, 2022: Pride Means Fighting Criminalization
April 5, 2022: Abortion Access and the Fight Against Policing and Criminalization
April 7 & 21, 2021: Strategy Session & Resources: Cops Out of Care
October 27, 2020: Strategy Session & Resources: Beyond Do No Harm
We are committed to making our events and resources accessible - which means hiring interpreters, live captioners and more. We would love your help in making sure that we can continue to pay everyone involved in putting on our events. We particularly encourage institutions using our educational resources to donate funds. If you’d like to contribute, you can do so by heading to our Paypal donation link and writing "Beyond Do No Harm" in the "add a note to your donation" field.
Principles Session #8: Identification Documents & Criminalization
Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #4, how health care providers can end the practice of calling police on suspicion of fraudulent identification documents.
Speakers: Sydelle O'Brien from Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Diana Perez-Ramirez from Latinx Therapists Action Network, Lynly Egyes from Transgender Law Center, as well as Gabriel Arkles and Jack Einstein from Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.
September 22, 2023
Principles Session #6: Drug Policy
Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics cover BDNH Principle #6, how health care providers can work to stop calling police on people in possession of, distributing, or using drugs and controlled substances, and stop participating or supporting prosecution in cases related to drug use or overdose.
Speakers: Jacqueline Seitz (Legal Action Center); Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD (Yale School of Medicine); Marilyn Reyes (Peer Network of New York), Tamara Olt, MD (Broken No More); Louise Vincent, MPH (National Survivors Union); and with facilitator Aliza Cohen (Drug Police Alliance).
July 27, 2023
Strategy Session & Resources: Cops Out of Care
A two-part series for building strategy around police abolition in healthcare & care spaces with #DPHMustDivest & Frontline Wellness Network.
April 7 & 21, 2021
Strategy Session & Resources: Beyond Do No Harm
A strategy session for developing guiding principles for health practitioners & public health professionals committed to care not criminalization.
October 27, 2020
Abortion Access and the Fight Against Policing and Criminalization
A panel discussion on why an abolitionist vision is necessary to the future or reproductive justice organizing.
April 5, 2022
Pride Means Fighting Criminalization
A panel discussion on how attacks on trans youth across the country further criminalization, why trans liberation require us to #DefundPolice, and share strategies on how to fight for conditions that enable trans people to live full, dignified and thriving lives.
June 30, 2022
Beyond Do No Harm Principles Release Party!
A panel discussion and invitation to action on how health care providers can sign on to the 13 Beyond Do No Harm principles, and recommit to caring for people by refusing to participate in criminalization.
November 3, 2022
Principles Session #1: Cops Out of Care
Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #1, how health care providers can end police and ICE presence in hospitals, in or near health care facilities, and places where people are accessing care.
Speakers: Kelley Butler (#DPHMustDivest), Norman Archer (#DPHMustDivest), Alex Villarraga (#DPHMustDivest), Shamsher Samra (Frontline Wellness Network), and Mark Eisenberg, MD (Mass General Hospital), and facilitated by Fabián Fernández (#DPHMustDivest and Beyond Do No Harm).
February 22, 2023
Principles Session #2: Non Punitive Mental Health Response
Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #5, how health care providers can stop calling police on people with unmet mental health needs.
Speakers: Vinny Eng (Safer Together), Erica Woodland (National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network), Mimi Kim (Creative Interventions), Olivia Park (Do No Harm coalition) and Asantewaa Boykin (MH First).
March 29, 2023
Principles Session #3: End Mandated Reporting
Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #7, End Mandated Reporting.
April 13, 2023
Principles Session #4: Refusing Carceral Collaborations
Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics focus on BDNH Principles #11 and #12, including how health care providers can:
1. Stop providing and/or sanctioning substandard/violative care for people who are in custody or incarcerated in jails, prisons, detention centers, residential centers, group homes, and state facilities.
2. Stop collaborating with the criminal punishment system to violate people in custody, including through performing cavity searches at the request of police or prison officials; evaluating competency to stand trial; experimenting on and sterilizing people who are incarcerated; facilitating torture; or administering the death penalty.
Speakers: Amber Rose Howard (Californians United for a Responsible Budget), Colby Lenz (California Coalition for Women Prisoners), Rev. Jason Lydon (Black & Pink Massachusetts) and Andrea James (National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women) sharing their wisdom on a panel moderated by IC co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie
May 31, 2023
Principles Session #5: Self Managed and Community Care
Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics include how to interrupt criminalization of self-managed and community care, such as how to stop supporting prosecution in cases against people who manage their own care or offer community-based care, fail to seek care, or fail to disclose their private medical information.
Speakers include: Dr. Laura Mintz, Farah Diaz-Tello (If/When/How), Dr. Jamila Perritt (Physicians for Reproductive Health), and IC co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie. They will share ways in which care is criminalized and how to resist this, in a session moderated by IC's very own Transformative Justice fellow, Shira Hassan.
June 12, 2023
Principles Session #7: Infectious Disease & Criminalization
Join other health care and public health workers, and organizers working toward interrupting criminalization in the medical-industrial complex. This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #9, how health care providers can stop participating in or supporting prosecution in cases of transmission of infectious diseases.
Speakers: Kenyon Farrow, S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal (The Center for HIV Law & Policy), and Shira Eisler, MD (Detroit Public Health STD Clinic).
September 18, 2023
