David H. Cloud, JD, MPH; Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD; Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH; Jasmine Graves, MPH; and Robert E. Fullilove, EdD, served as Guest Editors for this supplement: “Mass Incarceration as a Social-Structural Driver of Health Inequities.” D. H. Cloud and L. Brinkley-Rubinstein conceptualized the goals, structure, and content of this special issue and jointly received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support this work. They led the solicitation process for research articles and commissioned editorials and book reviews based on defined topics. D. H. Cloud and L. Brinkley-Rubinstein drafted the lead editorial, and M. T. Bassett, R. E. Fullilove, and J. Graves provided comments and revisions. D. H. Cloud and L. Rubinstein co-wrote the editorial describing the supplement's content. D. H. Cloud and L. Rubinstein worked closely with AJPH editors to evaluate peer reviews and deliver feedback to authors. M. T. Bassett and R. E. Fullilove served as mentors, and J. Graves provided instrumental support for this project.
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Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC)—Chapel Hill, as well as a core faculty member at the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. She received her PhD in Community, Research, and Action at Vanderbilt University and completed a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School. Dr. Brinkley-Rubinstein’s research focuses on how incarceration can impact health outcomes and exacerbate health inequities. She is the principal investigator of a recently funded National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) R01 cohort study relevant to preexposure prophylaxis among people on probation and parole, and a principal investigator of a NIDA Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) Clinical Research Center grant that includes the implementation and evaluation of opioid overdose prevention programs in community supervision settings in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.
David H. Cloud, JD, MPH, is trained in law and public health research. His work broadly focuses on drug policy and harm reduction, diverting people with mental health needs and those who use drugs away from the criminal legal system, and ending solitary confinement in state prisons. He previously worked at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City, an organization focused on ending mass incarceration, improving conditions of confinement, and advancing racial justice. He currently works at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, as part of Amend, an initiative committed to addressing harmful and degrading living and working conditions in carceral settings while promoting health equity, transformative culture change, and human rights. He is a PhD candidate at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a predoctoral fellow in the Criminal Justice Research Training Program on Substance Use, HIV, and Comorbidities at Brown University. He serves on the board of directors at the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition.
Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, is the Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. With more than 30 years of experience in public health, Dr. Bassett has dedicated her career to advancing health equity. Prior to joining the Center, Dr. Bassett served as New York City’s Commissioner of Health from 2014 to 2018. Part of her tenure as Commissioner included oversight of Correctional Health Services, the unit responsible for providing health care in New York City’s jails, including the country’s oldest and largest jail-based opioid treatment program.
Jasmine Graves, MPH, is with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY.
Robert E Fullilove, EdD, is Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs at CUIMC’s Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY. He received his doctorate in education from Columbia University Teachers College in 1984 and has a long history of engagement with higher education programs designed to increase educational opportunities for disadvantaged students in the United States. Since joining the Columbia faculty in 1990, he has been engaged in a variety of public health programs and research efforts as the codirector of the Cities Research Group with Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove. Since 2010, he has served as the senior public health adviser to the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) and has taught public health courses in 3 of the 6 facilities served by that program.