Cynthia Golembeski

Cynthia Golembeski, MPH, is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar affiliated with the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School where she is completing doctoral studies. She was a Fulbright grantee and USAID Research and Innovation fellow in South Africa.  

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Governance

Jails and Pretrial Detention: A Human Rights and Health Justice Problem

by Cynthia Golembeski, Gabriel B. Eber, Jacqueline Lantsman, Homer Venters

"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails" — Nelson Mandela

nmate Jimmy Jackson ,63 at the front of the group in the Pecan Field at Angola.
Environment

Climate Change and Incarceration

by Cynthia Golembeski, Andrea Armstrong, Ans Irfan, Michael Méndez, Nicholas Shapiro

People in prison are vulnerable to extreme temperatures, diseases, and displacement

A volunteer places American flags on the National Mall in Washington DC—representing some of the more than 200,000 lives lost in the United States to coronavirus—on September 22, 2020. The photo shows a young woman on one knee planting a small American flag in the ground. Many more can be seen blurred and out of focus in the foreground. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Governance

National Security Risks and the American Weak Link

by Ans Irfan, Cynthia Golembeski, Jonathan Williams, Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco

We should address U.S. investment choices in Public Health Infrastructure and Universal Health Care after COVID-19