(Washington, DC) -- A Brown University professor is being elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Josiah Rich is one of 85 new members of the 2018 class. Rich is a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Brown and is also the director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at Miriam Hospital in Providence. The academy said it is honoring Rich for his dedication in his medical and public research career to help people who are in detention or incarcerated, and to help drug users.