Greifinger, Robert B.

Robert B. Greifinger, MD is a healthcare policy and quality management consultant.  His work focuses on design, management, and quality improvement in correctional healthcare systems.  He has extensive experience in the development and management of complex community and institutional healthcare programs, and strengths in the bridging of clinical and public policy interests.  

Dr. Greifinger has published extensively in the area of correctional health care.  He has been a frequent speaker on public policy, communicable disease control and quality management in corrections.  Dr. Greifinger was the principal investigator for the Report to Congress on Seizing Public Health Opportunities through Correctional Health Care, published in 2002.  He was Co-Editor of the International Journal of Prisoner Health from 2010 - 2016. Dr. Greifinger is the editor of Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities (1st Edition, 2007; 2nd Edition, 2022), Springer, New York.  He currently serves as the Federal Court-appointed medical monitor for the jails in Miami, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.