ICPA Healthcare Network Webinar: Nutrition, Dignity, and Detention: Why Food Is a Human Right Behind Bars

Agnès Pinault

Economic Security in Detention Adviser, ICRC, Switzerland

Since 2022, Agnes has been serving as an Ecosec in Detention Advisor at ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva, where she provides strategic guidance, develops evidence-based frameworks, and promotes humanitarian principles in global detention policies to ensure persons deprived of liberty can meet their essential needs with dignity. Her extensive career spans for more than two decades, marked by expertise in public health, nutrition, and detention work. After nearly 10 years as a technical expert in nutrition strategies, operational research, capacity building, and partnership development with various international NGOs, she joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2014 to focus on detention. Her career reflects a deep commitment to improving health systems, addressing malnutrition, and fostering impactful partnerships in complex contexts. Agnes holds a master’s degree in public health from Université de Lorraine and a postgraduate diploma in tropical medicine from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp.

Dr. Edwin Prophete

TB/HIV Specialist and Medical Supervisor, Health through Walls, Haiti

Dr. Edwin Prophete is a TB/HIV specialist and medical supervisor in Health through Walls, Haiti. He attended and graduated from Université Notre-Dame d‘Haiti medical school in 2009. He began his medical career for Health through Walls in 2003 as a doctor in the Civil Prison of Cap-Haitien. A year later he transferred to the civil prison of Port-au-Prince (the city where he currently resides), providing general healthcare and HIV/TB care to prisoners. Dr. Prophete is currently the HtW medical supervisor for Haiti. He is recognized for playing a key role in implementing innovative health strategies, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for rapid TB screening and video directly observed therapy (VDOT) to improve TB treatment adherence in Haitian prisons. He was also the project coordinator in a health assistance program in Mozambique prisons.

Barbara Wakeen

Principal and Owner, Correctional Nutrition Consultants, United States

Barbara Wakeen, RDN, LD, CD is the principal and owner of Correctional Nutrition Consultants, Ltd., founded in 1995, where she specializes in correctional foodservice and nutrition consultation nationwide. She brings more than 37 years of experience providing nutrition and foodservice expertise to jails, prisons, treatment centers, ICE facilities, contract management companies, food processors, manufacturers, and food distributors, and also serves as an expert witness. Barbara has held numerous national leadership roles in correctional nutrition, including more than 24 years as the Alliance Representative for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) Board of Representatives. She has served as Chair of the Association of Correctional Food Service Affiliates (ACFSA) Dietitians in Corrections since 2000 and contributes to the profession as a writer, editor, and coordinator of ACFSA’s Corrections Dietitians/Food Service network. Her contributions include authoring the Corrections chapter of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics NCM Diet Manual (2017; revised 2022) and editing Nutrition and Food Service Management in Correctional Facilities (2008). In 2024, she received the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ prestigious Medallion Award. Barbara is internationally recognized as a leader, speaker, and expert in correctional foodservice and nutrition.