Faculty
Josiah Rich
Professor of Medicine and Community Health:
Bio Med Medicine
Phone: +1 401 793 4770
Josiah_Rich@Brown.EDU
Read Josiah Rich's full Faculty Research Profile.
Josiah Rich has a number of research interests including: the overlap between infectious diseases and addiction; HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, sexually transmitted diseases; incarcerated populations; access to addiction treatment; and HIV in the Dominican Republic and Russia.
Biography
Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Brown Medical School and Attending Physician at The Miriam Hospital. He has expertise in the overlap between infectious diseases and addiction. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications and has federal funding for research, prevention and care for substance-using populations. A consultant on the American International Health Alliance funded by Providence-Togliatti, Sumara, Russia exchange project. He is the Director and co-founder of The Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital Immunology Center.
Interests
Josiah Rich is an experienced Clinical Investigator with expertise in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, with an emphasis on HIV and hepatitis viruses. He works closely with both the incarcerated population and people with the disease of addiction. He received a Scientist Development Award for Clinicians (K20BA00268) from 1995 to 2002 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He is currently Principal Investigator on two grants from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT): (KB1 PI12037) to provide access to medical and substance abuse treatment through physician/patient motivational intervention, and (H79PI14562) to provide outreach and methadone for former prisoners; as well as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Grant (U50/CCU119078) to integrate viral hepatitis prevention in the correctional setting. He is the Principal Investigator for the Ryan White Title III Grant (H76 HA 00018) to provide early intervention services with respect to HIV disease, and the Principal Investigator for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)/National Institutes of Health (NIH)grant for opiate replacement therapy at release from incarceration (R01 DA018641)and a mentored investigator award in patient oriented research(K24DA022112). He is also a Co-Investigator on a NIDA-sponsored trial to reduce Hepatitis C among injection drug users (R01 DA 13759), and the NIDA sponsored criminal justice drug abuse treatment services research system to improve the outcomes of drug offenders (U01BA016191). He has over 100 peer review publications predominately in the overlap between infectious diseases and substance abuse.
Degrees
MD, MPH
Teaching
1994 to present: Medical Attending Physician, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI
1994 to present: Immunology Center Attending, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI
1994 to present: Inpatient and On-call Rounding, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI
1994-1999: Infectious Diseases Consult Service Attending, The Miriam Hospital
1995-1996: Lecturer, and Small Group Sessions Facilitator, Biomed 282 - Pathophysiology, Infectious Disease, Brown University, Providence, RI
1995-1999: Course Co-Director, Biomed 282 - Pathophysiology, Infectious Disease, Brown University, Providence, RI
1997 to present: Brown International Health Institute, Fogarty Fellowship Faculty Mentor
1997-1999: Speaker, Annual BRUNAP Forum, Brown University
1999: Guest Lecturer, Anthropology 23/ University Course/Biology and Medicine-Community, Health 23/Brown University
2000-2004: Regional Editorial Advisory Board Member, HEPP News (HIV Education Prison Project), Brown University AIDS Program
2002 to present: Infectious Diseases Consult Service Attending, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
2003 to present: Preceptor, Brown Medical School and Lifespan Academic Medical Center, Internal Medicine Community Based Teaching Program
2003 to present: Mentor, Community Based Teaching Program, Brown Medical School, Residency Programs in Medicine, Providence, RI
2003: Judge, Cost vs. Care: The Dilemma For American Medicine (BC007), Brown University, Providence, RI
2004 to present: Regional Editorial Advisory Board Member, HEPP News (HIV Education Prison Project, Infectious Disease Correction Report), Brown University AIDS Program, Providence, RI
2005: Educator, Brown Medical School, The Center of Excellence in Women's Health, Research Core Mentoring Program for Junior Investigators, "Substance Abusing Populations", Providence, RI
2007-2008: Small Group Sessions Facilitator, Bio 365 – Pathophysiology, Infectious Diseases, Brown University, Providence, RI
2007: Course Speaker, HIV Medicine for Primary Care Providers, "HIV in Substance Users", Brown University, Providence, RI
Web Links
- 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
