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Josiah Rich has a number of research interests, including: the overlap between infectious diseases and addiction; incarcerated populations and public health opportunities in the criminal justice system; HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, and sexually transmitted diseases; and global health.
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Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Attending Physician at The Miriam Hospital with expertise in infectious diseases and addiction. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed publications, predominantly in the overlap between infectious diseases, addictions and incarceration. He is Principal Investigator of three R01's, one R21 and a K24 all focused on incarcerated populations. He is the Director and Co-founder of The Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital Immunology Center (www.prisonerhealth.org). He is also a Co-Founder of the nationwide Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) collaboration in HIV in corrections (CFAR/CHIC) initiative. Dr. Rich has advocated for public health policy changes to improve the health of people with addiction, including improving legal access to sterile syringes and increasing drug treatment for the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated populations.
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 JOSIAH RICH, MD, MPH http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Josiah_Rich On The Web: LAST WORD: Decriminalize possession of syringes (GSJ of June 9, 2000) Syringe prescriptions may help prevent HIV spread (GSJ of May 24, 2001) Better access to clean needles may reduce spread of HIV infection A Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights Are you Josiah Rich? Click here to edit your research profile. |
