An ad hoc steering committee will organize and hold a two-day public workshop on adding measures of prior and current criminal justice system involvement to household-based health surveys of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), such as the National Health Interview Survey, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and others. Justice-involved populations have gradually gained recognition as vulnerable to poor health outcomes, including high rates of infectious diseases and behavioral health conditions. Discussions at the workshop will inform future DHHS selection of measures of involvement with the criminal justice system for potential inclusion in population surveys of health. Workshop topics will likely include the following:

• How do scholars define and measure kinds of criminal justice involvement and their effects on health at the national level, as well as state and local levels?

• If existing measures of criminal justice involvement are available, how well do they work and in what settings or for what types of data collections on population health?

• If measures are not available, what new measures could potentially be developed for inclusion in population health surveys?

• To develop new measures for population-level data collections on how criminal justice involvement affects health, which constructs in each domain need to be measured?

• Do substantial knowledge gaps exist? If so, what are they? Do data exist to support research to fill any remaining substantial knowledge gaps? If not, could such data be generated?

A summary of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines. Presentations, background materials, commissioned papers, and audio files of the workshop will be posted on the Internet.