She also serves as Director of the Community Aging Health Project and Medical Director of the San Francisco VA Geriatrics Clinic. Dr. Williams has published work calling for more evidence based and effective use of compassionate release policies for prisoners, broader inclusion of prisoners in national health datasets, better funding for criminal justice healthcare research, and improved systems for defining, recognizing and responding to functional impairment, cognitive impairment, and multimorbidity in incarcerated older adults. She uses the results of her research to help system leaders, policy and law makers shape correctional healthcare policies.