Warren Ferguson, MD serves as Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Medical School. His academic career has centered on achieving health equity among vulnerable populations. Dr. Ferguson took on a new challenge to assist UMass to develop a comprehensive medical care program for detainees in the state’s prisons.
Struck by his steep learning curve to gain understanding of the vexing issues of mass incarceration, Dr. Ferguson sought to engage academic medicine in the field of criminal justice health. He founded the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, in its 15th year, as well as the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health.
Currently, he serves as co-PI for the Capacity Building Core of the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) for the Coordination and Translation Center and as a Co-I for the Baystate/UMass JCOIN hub studying implementation of MOUD in seven Massachusetts jails.
