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.

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.

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

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.