2025 ACCp Annual Conference

Thursday, September 18th
What We Don’t See: Leveraging Data to Uncover Systemic Bias and Confront Impacts on Patient Outcomes in Correctional Healthcare
Objectives:
- Describe how operational and clinical data can reveal systemic patterns and nuances—including potential disparities in the classification, restrictive housing, and SMI-related service access.
- Understand how improved data utilization can support a collaborative culture of accountability and inform policy and care decisions in participants systems.
- Discuss practical strategies to improve the collection and utilization of data across staff levels to promote clinical insights, operational improvements, and patient-centered outcomes.

Corey Brawner, PhD, CCHP
Dr. Corey Brawner is a clinical psychologist whose expertise includes systems research design, statistical analysis, and evidence-based practices for special populations, including veteran-specific programming, suicide prevention and training, and considerations for individuals with traumatic brain injuries. He began his career working with justice-involved families and providing psychological services for individuals in mental health and drug court diversion and re-entry programming. He then worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he provided inpatient mental health services to veterans with serious mental illness and managed behavioral health teams in integrated Primary Care-Mental Health settings, focusing on reintegration into civilian society following military service and community reentry from confinement settings. He is a lead mental health expert on Falcon’s system analysis projects, developing assessment tools and managing data analysis, and presenting results and recommendations.