#47 Creating the right FIT: Health Equity 2

Doctors in Business

Dr. Evan Ashkin is the director and founder of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition (NC FIT) program, which helps connect chronically ill formerly incarcerated individuals to primary care medical services. He currently serves as a professor of family medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, teaching in the underserved track of the residency program, and sees patients at Piedmont Health Services, which serves vulnerable populations.

You can reach Dr. Ashkin with questions or comments at [e-mail]. If you’re interested in hearing more about the program, please visit their website at ncfitprogram.org.

To hear more about the Transitions Clinic Network upon which the NC FIT program was based, please visit their website at https://transitionsclinic.org/.

If you’re interested in an overview of post-release healthcare and re-entry programming, you can read more about it in an article co-authored by Dr. Ashkin, called “Prison And Jail Reentry And Health”: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20210928.343531/.

References of interest:

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (https://newjimcrow.com/)

• 13th by Ava Duvernay (a documentary viewable on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741)

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