E4P COVID-19 Supplement Research Team

Bio coming soon!

Ingie Osman, MPH, (she/her) is a Research Project Specialist in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health at the University of Minnesota. She joined the Division in 2021 after completing her Masters of Public Health in Community Health Promotion at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Ingie’s work is broadly focused on the impact that criminal legal system involvement has on community health and wellbeing, and is centered around partnering with communities directly impacted by these systems.

Abaki Beck (she/her) is a Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration PhD student. Prior to her doctoral studies, Abaki worked on research and program evaluation in various settings, including for a university-based social policy institute, a higher education in prison program, a member of Congress, and a community-based organization on the Blackfeet Reservation. She has also organized with numerous community-based groups, including co-founding a mutual aid fund for formerly incarcerated people in 2020. She earned a Master’s in Public Health from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020 and a Bachelor’s in American Studies from Macalester College in 2015. 

Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and an obstetrician-gynecologist specializing in family planning at Johns Hopkins University. She is associate professor in the Department of Gyn/Ob and the associate director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at the School of Medicine and in Health, Behavior and Society at the School of Public Health. She has worked extensively on reproductive health issues affecting incarcerated women, from providing clinical care in jail, to research, policy, and advocacy. Her work is situated at the intersection of reproductive justice, health care, and mass incarceration, which she examines in her book, Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars. Learn more about Dr. Sufrin at her website arrwip.org

Anne Siegler, DrPH, MPH, is a public health practitioner with expertise in criminal justice and substance use.  She completed her masters in public health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health with a focus on maternal and reproductive health, and completed her doctoral degree in epidemiology from the City University of New York.  Dr. Siegler works with non-profits and government agencies to build quality programming through data-driven design, implementation, and evaluation.  She has led evaluations of programs in the fields of criminal justice and correctional health, substance use, and harm reduction.  She served as Director of Monitoring and Evaluation for Correctional Health Services, NYC Health + Hospitals, from 2015-2017.

Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Shlafer completed her bachelors and masters degrees in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and her doctoral degree in Developmental Child Psychology at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Shlafer's research sits at the intersection of maternal and child public health and the criminal legal system. She serves as the Research Director for the Minnesota Prison Doula Project and has received extramural funding to support her research on enhanced pregnancy and postpartum programs for people in prison.