Response to COVID-19

Brie Williams, MD, MS was interviewed by BBC News in an article entitled “Coronavirus: Can this California prison save itself from Covid-19?”.  "Make no mistake, a public health disaster has already existed in the United States for decades, and that public health disaster has been mass incarceration," Dr. Williams said.

David Sears, MD, Cyrus Ahalt, MPP, Dallas Augustine, MA, and Brie Williams, MD, MS published an article entitled, "Occupational Health: A Key to the Control of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities" in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Leah Rorvig, MD, MS and Brie Williams, MD, MS published an article entitled "Prisons and COVID-19: A Desperate Call for Gerontological Expertise in Correctional Healthcare" in The Gerontological Society of America.

Rebecca Sudore, MD and the PREPARE Team sent out a newsletter “Addressing Racial Inequities in Advance Care Planning from Prepare for Your Care”.

Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS was quoted in "That ‘life after coronavirus’ is a recipe for mass shooters, climate disaster. We can do better. | Will Bunch" published in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Leah Witt, MD co-hosted a Curbsiders podcast featuring guests Kelly Graham, MD, MPH (@KellyGrahamMD) and Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd (

Leah Rorvig, MD developed a webinar entitled “Providing Acute Care for Seriously Ill Incarcerated Patients in the Community: Frequently Asked Questions” which answers questions frequently asked by community clinicians (including physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains) who may be participating in the care of hospitalized incarcerated patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Brie Williams, MD, MS, along with colleagues Oluwadamilola Oladeru MD, Nguyen-Toan Tran PhD, Tala Al-Rousan MD, MPH and Nickolas Zaller PhD, published a Letter to the Editor in Health and Justice entitled “A call to protect patients, correctional staff and healthcare professionals in jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic”.

Brie Williams, MD, MS was quoted, “we’ve been saying for decades, correctional health is public health.” in The Huffington Post article entitled “Inside The Prison Where 8 In 10 Of The Incarcerated Have Gotten Coronavirus”.

David Cloud, JD, MPH, Cyrus Ahalt, MPP, Dallas Augustine, MA, David Sears, MD and Brie Williams, MD, MS published “Medical Isolation and Solitary Confinement: Balancing Health and Humanity in US Jails and Prisons During COVID-19” in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.