The Bellwether Collaborative
for Health Justice
The Research Team
Lab Director
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein is an Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences at Duke University. She conceptualizes the criminal legal system as a structural determinant of health that impacts people, families, and communities. She co-founded the COVID Prison Project and has used this infrastructure to launch the Third City Project--a big data project that tracks and collects publicly available health and health policy data from carceral systems. Other recent work focuses on substance use, HIV prevention, and underscoring how mass incarceration is an integral facet of structural racism.
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD
Lab Director
Lab Manager
Sarah Morgan, MSW
Sarah Morgan is the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice Manager. She graduated from UNC in 2009 with a B.A. In Psychology and English. She completed her social work training in 2012 at the UNCG/NCATSU Joint Masters of Social Work Program. Sarah has worked in clinical research for nearly 10 years. Broadly, her research interests include the impact of early adverse childhood experiences on developmental trajectories throughout the lifespan of the individual.
Sarah Morgan, MSW
Lab Manager
Policy Analyst, 3rd City Project
Forrest Behne, BS
Forrest Behne is a policy analyst at the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. He was incarcerated for nearly two years because of a little-understood medical condition. Since being released through clemency by Ohio’s governor, he is inspired to help those affected by the criminal-legal system. He speaks at universities, for non-profits, and with lawmakers about his experiences and was a core member of the COVID Prison Project leadership. His research interests now include carceral policies, health inequities, and the collateral consequences of incarceration
Forrest Behne, BS
Policy Analyst, 3rd City Project
Clinical Research Coordinator, PIERS
Margaret Bordeaux, BA
Margaret Bordeaux is a NC native residing in Wilmington with her small family. Margaret graduated from Shaw University, where she double majored in Sociology and Psychology. A drug war survivor, Margaret's lived experiences, personal and familial, embolden her to advocate compassionately for people who are marginalized for their drug use and justice involvement. In her work, Margaret demonstrates a willingness to critically explore current practices through the lens of racial and health equity, and through strategic and thoughtful collaborations, working to develop promising strategies to promote health and well-being in racially minoritized and other historically marginalized communities.
Margaret Bordeaux, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator, PIERS
Graduate Research Assistant, SPECS
Hannah Camp, BA
Hannah Camp is currently a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, getting her Master's in Public Health and Social Work. Prior to going back to school, Hannah worked in women's and reproductive health advocacy and sexual assault hotline support in Washington, DC. Her research interests and passion revolve around trauma and adverse childhood experiences and how they impact sexual and reproductive health equity.
Hannah Camp, BA
Graduate Research Assistant, SPECS
Recruitment & Retention Specialist
Breana Castonguay, MPH
Breana Castonguay began her public health career as a community organizer in Fresno, California. The experience inspired her to obtain a Master’s in Public Health at The George Washington University with a focus on Community Oriented Primary Care. In graduate school, a Health Disparities course introduced her to the crack and cocaine sentencing disparities and mass incarceration policies. Her research interests are inspired by these unjust policies and include working with people living with HIV in the criminal justice system and PrEP as prevention.
Breana Castonguay, MPH
Recruitment & Retention Specialist
Regulatory Coordinator
Alice Cates, MS
Alice Cates is site coordinator of the JCOIN PIERS study at the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. She received her bachelor degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and a M.S. in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston School of Public Health in 2008. Alice has worked in public health research for over 10 years in Texas, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina. Her research interests include HIV/AIDS and the health disparities affecting populations involved in the criminal justice system.
Alice Cates, MS
Project Coordinator, PIERS
Research Assistant, 3rd City Project
Anvi Charvu
Anvi Charvu is a sophomore from Apex, NC, and is a prospective Sociology and Biology major. Anvi is the co-president of Duke Remote Area Medical and is a member of Lady Blue, an all-female acapella group. Through an ongoing Bass project, she researches socioeconomic and geographical barriers to healthcare in rural areas. She hopes to further her knowledge of the intersection between health, healthcare, and incarceration through the Re-Envisioning Health & Justice Lab.
Anvi Charvu
Research Assistant, 3rd City Project
Clinical Research Coordinator, RWJF
Zaire Cullins, BA
Zaire is a clinical research coordinator for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded community safety project. She graduated with BAs in psychology and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021. Her research interests revolve around the impact of the criminal legal system on adolescents and families, with a particular interest in mental health and racial disparities.
Zaire Cullins, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator, RWJF
Research Assistant, 3rd City Project
Mac Hoeve
Mac Hoeve is a junior majoring in Economics (BS) and International Comparative Studies (BA) and minoring in Cultural Anthropology. They are interested in the economics of International Development and abolition-focused research. In the future, they hope to attend an economics graduate program.
Mac Heove
Research Assistant, 3rd City Project
Research Assistant, 3rd City Project
Ja'nelle Kellam
Ja'nelle Kellam
Research Assistant, 3rd City Project
Ja'nelle is a junior at Duke University pursuing a major in Neuroscience (B.S.), a minor in Chemistry, and a certificate in Decision Sciences. Her professional interests lie in medicine/healthcare, and she plans on pursuing a medical degree. She has further interest in the intersection of race, gender, and socioeconomic status within social institutions.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Catherine Paquette, PhD
Catherine Paquette, PhD
Catherine Paquette is a postdoctoral researcher with the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. She completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on harm reduction interventions for physical and mental health among people who use criminalized drugs, including people affected by the criminal legal system. Dr. Paquette has over a decade of research and clinical experience in the fields of harm reduction and substance use disorder treatment. She previously managed harm reduction programs at a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C, and she has both conducted research and provided clinical services for people with substance use problems in multiple hospital settings, community-based addiction treatment centers, at the VA, and with community-based harm reduction organizations. Her recent work includes developing and empirically evaluating a harm reduction-focused behavioral intervention for substance use among people who inject drugs.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Clinical Research Coordinator, RWJF
Margaret Roach, MPH
Margaret Roach is a CRC for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded community safety project. She earned her MPH in Health Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2023 and her B.S. in Psychology from Wofford College in 2021. Her public health research interests are suicide, disability justice, alternative crisis response models, and the public health impacts of carceral health services. As someone who has survived psychiatric incarceration (hospitalization), she is committed to translating research into anti-carceral, community-led mental health systems.
Margaret Roach, MPH
Clinical Research Coordinator, RWJF
Research Assistant, 3rd City Project
Sophia Sparrow
Sophia is a third-year undergraduate student at Duke University who is pursuing a degree in Neuroscience (BS). Her current research interests focus on the health disparities among socially disadvantaged populations across the country and how greater transparency can promote justice in the criminal legal system. Following graduation, she intends to continue working as an EMT before pursuing medical school to serve the community and raise awareness of the ethical responsibilities within the healthcare industry.
Sophia Sparrow
Research Assistant, 3rd City Project
Project Coordinator, TCN-PATHS
Madelene Travis, BA
Madelene Travis is a site coordinator of the JCOIN TCN-PATHS study at the Re-Envisioning Health and Justice Lab. She graduated from Colorado College in 2017 with a B.A. in Sociology, with a focus on the sociology of health and medicine. Broadly, her research interests include the social determinants of health, how individuals and families cope with chronic illness, and the intersection between the criminal justice system and opioid use.