Madeline Adee

Manager of Impact & Evaluation

Madeline (Maddy) Adee has worked at the intersection of public health and incarceration for nearly a decade. She is completing her PhD in Health Policy at UC Berkeley, where her dissertation examines the use of force in California prisons and its associated health impacts. Maddy has previously collaborated with Amend to study the impact of COVID-19 in California prisons and assess Oregon’s contact officer program. Before starting her PhD, she conducted research on infectious disease screening and treatment in prisons, harm reduction and overdose prevention, and global hepatitis C elimination. She has extensive experience working inside prisons and with formerly incarcerated individuals, including teaching harm reduction classes in Washington prisons and coordinating a gang and prison tattoo removal program in Portland, Oregon. For the past three years, she has also taught math and public health classes at Mount Tamalpais College in San Quentin. Maddy holds an MPH from Emory University and a BS in Anthropology from Portland State University.