Improving the health of incarcerated people

Jaimie P. Meyer, MD, MS, FACP, Yale University, USA

Dr Meyer is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale, and the Associate Program Director for Research of the Infectious Disease fellowship training program. Dr Meyer is a practicing physician who is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Addiction Medicine.  Dr Meyer's NIH-funded clinical research lab focuses on HIV prevention and treatment for women, addressing social and structural determinants of health. Ongoing projects involve HIV prevention and treatment interventions for women involved in criminal legal systems, attending to reproductive health needs, intimate partner violence, substance use disorders and homelessness. Her clinical work and research are motivated by her experience working as an HIV care provider at the only women’s prison and jail in Connecticut. 

Heino Johann Stöver, PhD, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Dr Stöver is a social scientist, PhD and Professor of Social Scientific Addiction Research at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in Germany, Faculty of Health and Social Work. Dr Stöver is the director of the Archive and Documentation Centre for Drug Literature and Research at the University of Bremen. He is the president of the national umbrella organization working on harm reduction for drug users, called akzept e.V. (Bundesverband für akzeptierende Drogenarbeit und humane Drogenpolitik). Since 2009 Dr Stöver is the director of the “Institute of Addiction Research” (frankfurt-university.de/isff). Heino Stöver’s main fields of research and project development expertise are health promotion for vulnerable and marginalized groups, drug services, prison health care and related health issues (especially HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, drug dependence, and gender issues), and the potential of e-cigarettes. His international research and consultancy expertise includes working as a consultant for the European Commission, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), World Health Organization (WHO), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Open Society Institute (OSI) in various contexts.

James Woodall, BSc (Hons), PG Cert, MSc, PhD, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Dr Woodall works in the School of Health at Leeds Beckett University. Dr Woodall's research interest is the health promoting prison and how values central to health promotion are applied to the context of imprisonment.  Dr Woodall’s work has also focused on prisoners’ families and prison staff. James has published more broadly on health promotion matters. including empowerment in health promotion and the contribution of local government in tackling health inequalities.