Benjamin A. Barsky is Initiative Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and a Ph.D. candidate in health policy at Harvard University . His work intersects health and criminal law, behavioral health policy, and disability justice. In particular, his dissertation research uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study the relationship between criminal law and health across three domains of application: controlled substances law and telemedicine; policing and alternative public safety interventions, and incarceration and its health and social sequelae. He received his J.D. and Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and B.A. in Public Health and Psychology from Johns Hopkins University.