Presented by
Emily Wang, M.D., Yale School of Medicine

Overview

The impacts of mass incarceration and the stigma of a criminal record have lasting health effects to both those who have been incarcerated and their families; however, incarceration is rarely addressed in clinical care or included as a focus of health equity efforts.

In her presentation, Yale School of Medicine professor Emily Wang, M.D., will present work that illuminates the current state of knowledge on the health harms of mass incarceration. She will discuss the following topics:

Speaker Biography

Dr. Wang is a professor at Yale School of Medicine and directs the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, a collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School.

The Center is committed to ending mass incarceration by working across the disparate domains of health, law, and criminal justice through providing direct clinical care, conducting research, educating health students and professionals, and driving legal advocacy and scholarship. Dr. Wang leads the Center’s research program, which receives funding from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how incarceration influences chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and opioid-use disorder, and uses a participatory approach to study structural interventions that mitigate the impacts of incarceration.

As an internist, Dr. Wang has cared for thousands of individuals with a history of incarceration. She is the co-founder of the Transitions Clinic Network, a national consortium of community health centers dedicated to caring for individuals released from correctional facilities by employing community health workers with histories of incarceration.

Dr. Wang serves on the Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Law and Justice. She was inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation (2021) and the National Academies of Medicine (2023) and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2022). Dr. Wang has an M.D. from Duke University, an M.A.S. from the University of California, San Francisco, and an A.B. from Harvard University.

• Novel approaches, drawn from her and others’ work, to studying, preventing, and mitigating the health harms of mass incarceration
• The importance of engaging those directly affected in solutions-oriented research

Attendees will leave with clarity on what we know, what we don’t know, and where we need to go.

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