Dr. Spaulding obtained her MD from the Medical College of Virginia and her MPH at John Hopkins. She trained in internal medicine and infectious disease. For the past 23 years, she has focused on correctional health and has authored 100 publications. She served as medical director for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, a combined jail/prison for six years. Since 2005 she has been on faculty at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, where she is an associate professor of epidemiology.