Curt G. Beckwith, MD, FACP, FIDSA, is a Professor of Medicine and Interim Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Lifespan-affiliated hospitals. He conducts research on developing innovative HIV testing, linkage, and retention programs for vulnerable populations, particularly for substance users and persons involved with the justice system. He has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 2007. He is the PI of the Collaborative Justice-Involved Research and Training Program on Substance Use and HIV at Brown University Health, Associate Director of the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research, and Director of the Community Engaged Research Core of the COBRE on Opioids and Overdose. In addition, Dr. Beckwith serves on the Department of Health and Human Services Antiretroviral Guidelines Committee, and he is an infectious diseases clinician at The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital.

Amy Nunn, ScD, is a Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health. She holds a secondary appointment in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brown University Medical School. A social scientist by training, she has worked in several countries and conducted domestic and international research on a variety of health topics, including HIV/AIDS, access to reproductive health services, and family planning. Dr. Nunn currently conducts applied research on how to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in HIV infection, treatment and care. With colleagues, she oversees two pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation science programs in Providence, Rhode Island and Jackson, Mississippi. She is the Principal Investigator of an NIH grant focused on training African Americans and Latinos in community and clinical research related to HIV/AIDS, with a focus on training new investigators in the Deep South.

Dr. Nunn is best known for her innovative community partnerships to address disparities, including engaging clergy and community leaders in HIV testing, treatment and social marketing campaigns. She is also the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Public Health Institute (RIPHI). In 2020, RIPHI launched Open Door Health, Rhode Island’s first LGBTQ clinic.

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University. She is a national expert in examining how the criminal legal system impacts people, families, and communities. During the pandemic, she co-founded the COVID Prison Project, one of the only national data projects that tracks and analyzes COVID testing, cases, and deaths in prison systems across the country. She utilized the infrastructure of the COVID Prison Project to recently launch the Third City Project—a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded big data project that tracks and aggregates publicly available health and health policy data from carceral systems. Additionally, Dr. Brinkley-Rubinstein is the PI of several NIH and foundation grants focused on substance use, HIV prevention, and mortality. In 2019, she co-edited a special issue of AJPH that explored how mass incarceration is a socio-structural determinant of health and more recently was invited by the National Academy of Medicine to attend its Annual Emerging Leaders Forum. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, CNN, Science Magazine, and other media outlets. Her work blends research and policy, which has recently culminated in providing expert consultation to Congress relevant to prison standards and data reporting.

Mari-Lynn Drainoni, PhD, is a Research Professor in the Section of Infectious Diseases at the Boston University (BU) School of Medicine and the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management at the BU School of Public Health, and is Co-Director of the Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences (CIIS) at BU. While her primary content areas are substance use and infectious diseases, her primary focus is on implementation science research methods that she applies to a wide range of content areas. Dr. Drainoni trains and mentors faculty, fellows, and students in implementation science and qualitative research methods.

Dr. Drainoni has a great deal of experience working collaboratively in clinical and community-based settings. Her current portfolio includes serving as the research site Implementation Science Core lead on the NIDA-funded HEALing Communities Study, the lead implementation scientist on the Providence-Boston CFAR, and an MPI on a T32 predoctoral training grant. She also is the lead implementation scientist on two NIH-funded hybrid implementation-effectiveness studies, a current AHRQ-funded mixed methods study of implementation strategies for antibiotic stewardship, and three additional studies focused on behavioral model design, implementation of new treatment modalities, and intervention dissemination.

Brandon Marshall, PhD, is a professor of the Department of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. He is also founding director of the People, Place & Health Collective at Brown University. Dr. Marshall’s research focuses on substance use epidemiology, with a specific emphasis on harm reduction and overdose prevention. He is passionate about conducting research that improves the health and well-being of people who use drugs

Brad Brockmann, JD, MDiv, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice, is a civil rights attorney whose career emphasis is on raising awareness at the national and state levels about the healthcare issues and challenges facing incarcerated and other justice-involved populations as well as the individuals and institutions who are charged with their custody and care. He has been designing and teaching courses on incarceration, criminal justice, and health at Brown University’s School of Public Health since 2013.

Mr. Brockmann collaborates with justice system stakeholders to identify and support projects that respond to the challenging issues that arise at the intersection of incarceration, recidivism, and public health locally and nationally. His current research with the Maine Department of Corrections is to document and assess the Department’s development and implementation of policies and practices intended to shift the operating culture of the state’s maximum security prison from one of punishment to one of wellness. The ultimate goal is to develop a national model of corrections centered on creating a culture of wellness for all who live and work in carceral environments.

Dr. Alysse Wurcel works clinically and on research to improve the quality of care delivered to people who use drugs and people who are incarcerated. She is an Infectious Diseases doctor at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Following medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, she did internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and ID fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and Tufts Medical Center. Dr. Wurcel provides HIV and HCV care at five county jails in eastern MA. Since spring 2020, she has worked as an ID liaison to the Massachusetts Sheriffs Association. She received funding from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality to improve HCV testing access in jails and from NIDA to develop improved systems of status-neutral HIV care in jails. She is the Chair-Elect of the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Correctional Health Care.

Sophie Pollack-Milgate earned a BA in Contemplative Studies from Brown University in 2023. She worked in cross-disciplinary bioethics research for over a year before joining The Miriam Hospital as a Research Assistant.