Ernest Drucker

Ernest Drucker (1940–2025) was a professor of Global Public Health at New York University’s College of Global Public Health. He was the author of A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America and ditor of Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health (both published by The New Press). Drucker was a founder of the International Harm Reduction Association, founding editor of Harm Reduction Journal, former chairman of Doctors of the World/USA, and a Soros Justice Fellow of the Open Society Foundation.