Mr. Justin Zaslavsky is a third-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. His clinical interests include correctional (carceral) healthcare, justice health, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.  He grew up in the Chicago suburbs before moving to Boston for his undergraduate. Mr. Zaslavsky  graduated from Tufts University in 2019, where he studied Community Health and minored in Philosophy. In addition to his studies, Justin worked as an EMT and as a domestic violence counselor for incarcerated survivors of abuse. Justin's interests in the carceral system and justice-involved populations arise from his commitment to health equity, his identity as a descendant of holocaust survivors, and his perspective on the criminal-legal system as the son and grandson of criminal defense attorneys.  After graduating college, he was selected as a 2019-2020 New York City Urban Fellow, where he worked between City Hall and NYC Emergency Management. As a clinician thrust into the operations center of NYC's COVID-19 response, Justin appreciated the complex ecosystem in which public health works, specifically around the psychological, racial, socioeconomic, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of human health and illness. Justin came to GW SMHS committed to advocacy, using policy to improve the well-being of historically marginalized communities, and addressing historical injustice.