Scott Allen
Scott Allen is a physician, author, human rights advocate, detention health expert, clinician who treats adults with developmental disabilities, musician, husband, and father.
At the age of 17, he ran away from home in Connecticut to respond to the refugee crisis on the Cambodian border in Thailand in the aftermath of the Killing Fields. That work started him on a path that led to his medical education as a physician at Brown University, international work in Southeast Asia, and then community health center work in the National Health Service Corps in Mississippi and Rhode Island. On return to Brown, he began treating patients in the states jails and prisons, work that eventually led him to collaborate with Physicians for Human Rights on efforts to improve health and human rights of those in detention.