FPO TALKS 2023 - Dr Panka Bencsik: Policing Substance Use: Chicago’s Treatment Program for Narcotics Arrests

The Future Potentials Observatory invites you to a Speaker Series event titled “FPO TALKS” presented by Dr Panka Bencsik, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and of Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.

Dr. Bencsik is an applied microeconomist. Her research interests lie in health economics, the economics of crime, and urban economics. She studies the impacts of the opioid crisis, what influences nutritional choices, how individuals’ mental health is impacted by external stressors, and how health carries forward intergenerationally.
She is the founding leader of the world’s largest research hub on mental health economics, the Mental Health Economics Special Interest Group. She runs this group under the umbrella of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA).

Date of the event: 5th July, 9.30 – 10.15 (CET)
Venue: MOME (1121 Budapest, Zugligeti út 9-25.), UP_217

Registration is required at fpo@future.potentials.hu .

2023.07.05

09:30 - 10:15

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Date of the event: 5th July, 9.30 – 10.15 (CET)
Venue: MOME (1121 Budapest, Zugligeti út 9-25.), UP_217

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