Emily A Wang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 248595 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Emily A Wang |
| NOMBRES | Emily A |
| APELLIDO | Wang |
| FIRMA | WANG E A |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1403-6891 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 200 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Beyond Immediate Responses
Gun violence is a pervasive and multifaceted public health problem. This study describes a novel application of group model building—a process that centers stakeholder voices to describe a complex problem—to investigate drivers of gun violence and design community-led interventions for prevention in New Haven, Connecticut. We recruited community leaders to participate in 2 group model building sessions in New Haven. Discussions and diagrams creat…
Incarceration, inclusion, and health equity
Mass incarceration and its spillover effects
Arrest Status, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Moderating Social Factors
“We know what's going on in our community”
Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by gun violence. Unlocking potential community-led solutions could be the key to quelling the gun violence epidemic and its impact on these communities. In this qualitative study, we explored community perspectives on local assets that may prevent and mitigate gun violence. We conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews (n = 45) among individuals not directly involved in gun violence (i.e., …
Characteristics of recently incarcerated primary care patients with and without a positive posttraumatic stress disorder screening upon clinic intake
Primary care patients recently released from incarceration have a need for wrap-around services that address health challenges and poverty. Patients with significant PTSD symptoms face even greater challenges. Identification and treatment of PTSD both during and after incarceration is warranted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Trusted residents and housing assistance to decrease violence exposure in New Haven (TRUE Haven)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05723614. Registration date: February 01, 2023. Please refer to https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05723614 for public and scientific inquiries
The sleep justice study - a prospective cohort study assessing sleep as a cardiometabolic risk factor after incarceration
The incarceration of millions of poor and minoritized groups presents an urgent need to understand how incarceration affects CVD epidemiology. This study will improve our understanding of sleep health among people released from carceral facilities and its potential relationship to CVD risk factor control. Using subjective and objective measures of sleep will allow us to identify unique targets to improve sleep health and mitigate cardiovascular r…
Treating Hepatitis C in Individuals With Previous Incarceration
To determine whether the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) hepatitis C (HCV) treatment campaign reached marginalized populations, we compared HCV care by previous incarceration status with Veterans Aging Cohort Study data. Of those with and those without previous incarceration, respectively, 40% and 21% had detectable HCV, 59% and 65% underwent treatment (P = .07); 92% and 94% of those who completed treatment achieved sustained virologic res…
Evaluation of Changes in US Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals With Criminal Legal Involvement in Medicaid Expansion and Nonexpansion States, 2010 to 2017
This cross-sectional study compares changes in health insurance coverage from 2010 to 2017 for low-income US adults with criminal legal involvement in states that did and did not adopt the Medicaid expansion provision of the Affordable Care Act
Role of the Intersections of Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation in the Association between Substance Use Behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Infections in a National Sample of Adults with Recent Crimi…
Limited research has focused on how substance use and sexual risk behaviors differ among individuals impacted by the criminal legal system based on social identities. Using the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, we estimated relative risk for reporting a sexually transmitted infection (STI) among intersectional social groups with criminal legal involvement using a modified Poisson regression. We then utilized multivariate logistic regression…
A prospective cohort study examining exposure to incarceration and cardiovascular disease (Justice-Involved Individuals Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology – Justice study)
Our study will identify factors associated with CVD risk factor control among people released from incarceration. Our measurement of incarceration-related exposures, psychosocial factors, and clinical measures of cardiovascular risk will allow for identification of unique targets for intervention to modify CVD risk in this vulnerable population
Paths to Improving Pandemic Preparedness in Jails and Prisons
The Health and Health Needs of People under Community Supervision
Americans under community supervision experience high rates of chronic disease, mental illness, and substance use disorders but have poor access to high-quality preventive care and treatment. Pervasive barriers to healthcare and health insurance reinforce poor health, as do restrictions to evidence-based addiction treatment. We propose that community supervision agencies transfer management of the health of supervised individuals to an expanded c…
Formerly Incarcerated Community Health Workers Engaging Individuals Returning From Incarceration Into Primary Care
Over half a million individuals return from United States prisons and millions more from jails every year, many of whom with complex health and social needs. Community health workers (CHWs) perform diverse roles to improve health outcomes in disadvantaged communities, but no studies have assessed their role as integrated members of a primary care team serving individuals returning from incarceration. Using data from participants who received prim…
Healthcare-induced trauma in correctional facilities
Association between incarceration and incident cardiovascular disease events
Incarceration was associated with incident cardiovascular disease rates, but associations were only significant in one sex-race group after multivariable adjustment
Reporting of substance use treatment quality in United States adult drug courts
Hawks et al. Respond
Service Involvement Across Multiple Sectors Among People Who Use Opioids, Methamphetamine, or Both, United States—2015–2018
BACKGROUND: The fourth wave of the opioid crisis is characterized by increased use and co-use of methamphetamine. How opioid and methamphetamine co-use is associated with health care use, housing instability, social service use, and criminal justice involvement has not been studied and could inform future interventions and partnerships. OBJECTIVES: To estimate service involvement across sectors among people who reported past year opioid and metha…
Decarcerating Correctional Facilities during Covid-19
The conditions and characteristics of correctional facilities - overcrowded with rapid population turnover, often in old and poorly ventilated structures, a spatially concentrated pattern of releases and admissions in low-income communities of color, and a health care system that is siloed from community public health - accelerates transmission of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for COVID-19. Such conditions increase the risk of co…
Health Status and Health Care Utilization of US Adults Under Probation
Objectives. To compare the health and health care utilization of persons on and not on probation nationally. Methods. Using the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, a population-based sample of US adults, we compared physical, mental, and substance use disorders and the use of health services of persons (aged 18–49 years) on and not on probation using logistic regression models controlling for age, race/ethnicity, gender, poverty, and insuranc…
Exposure to the US Criminal Legal System and Well-Being
Objectives. To assess the association between exposure to the US criminal legal system and well-being. Methods. We used data from the 2018 Family History of Incarceration Survey, a nationally representative cross-sectional study of family incarceration experience (n = 2815), which includes measures of participants’ own criminal legal system exposure, including police stops, arrests, and incarceration. We measured well-being across 5 domains—physi…
A conceptual model for understanding post-release opioid-related overdose risk
Post-release opioid-related overdose mortality is the leading cause of death among people released from jails or prisons (PRJP). Informed by the proximate determinants framework, this paper presents the Post-Release Opioid-Related Overdose Risk Model. It explores the underlying, intermediate, proximate and biological determinants which contribute to risk of post-release opioid-related overdose mortality. PRJP share the underlying exposure of inca…
Past year and prior incarceration and HIV transmission risk among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in the US
Three quarters of new HIV infections in the US are among men who have sex with men (MSM). In other populations, incarceration is a social determinant of elevations in viral load and HIV-related substance use and sex risk behavior. There has been limited research on incarceration and these HIV transmission risk determinants in HIV-positive MSM. We used the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) 2011-2012 follow-up survey to measure associations betwee…
What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated
What percentage of Americans have ever had a family member incarcerated? To answer this question, we designed the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). The survey was administered in the summer of 2018 by NORC at the University of Chicago using their AmeriSpeak Panel. It was funded by FWD.us, which released a separate report using the data. The data show that 45 percent of Americans have ever had an immediate family member incarcerated…
A Heavy Burden
Objectives. We examined the association of family member incarceration with cardiovascular risk factors and disease by gender. Methods. We used a sample of 5470 adults aged 18 years and older in the National Survey of American Life, a 2001–2003 nationally representative cross-sectional survey of Blacks and Whites living in the United States, to examine 5 self-reported health conditions (diabetes, hypertension, heart attack or stroke, obesity, and…
Engaging Individuals Recently Released From Prison Into Primary Care
Objectives. Individuals released from prison have high rates of chronic conditions but minimal engagement in primary care. We compared 2 interventions designed to improve primary care engagement and reduce acute care utilization: Transitions Clinic, a primary care–based care management program with a community health worker, versus expedited primary care. Methods. We performed a randomized controlled trial from 2007 to 2009 among 200 recently rel…
Exposure to the US Criminal Legal System and Well-Being
Objectives. To assess the association between exposure to the US criminal legal system and well-being. Methods. We used data from the 2018 Family History of Incarceration Survey, a nationally representative cross-sectional study of family incarceration experience (n = 2815), which includes measures of participants’ own criminal legal system exposure, including police stops, arrests, and incarceration. We measured well-being across 5 domains—physi…
Perceived Discrimination Based on Criminal Record in Healthcare Settings and Self-Reported Health Status among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
Health Literacy Among a Formerly Incarcerated Population Using Data from the Transitions Clinic Network
Discrimination based on criminal record and healthcare utilization among men recently released from prison
Recently released prisoners report criminal record discrimination by healthcare workers, and this experience may impact healthcare utilization. Future studies should seek to further characterize criminal record discrimination by healthcare workers and prospectively examine its impact on health outcomes
Health Status and Health Care Utilization of US Adults Under Probation
Objectives. To compare the health and health care utilization of persons on and not on probation nationally. Methods. Using the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, a population-based sample of US adults, we compared physical, mental, and substance use disorders and the use of health services of persons (aged 18–49 years) on and not on probation using logistic regression models controlling for age, race/ethnicity, gender, poverty, and insuranc…
Preparing for Disaster
Discharge Planning and Continuity of Health Care
Continuity of health care among the formerly incarcerated is an emerging public health challenge. We used data from the San Francisco County Jail to determine whether discharge planning improves access to care on release. Inmates who were HIV positive and received discharge planning were 6 times more likely to have a regular source of care in the community compared with inmates with other chronic medical conditions, and they were as likely to hav…
The Health and Health Needs of People under Community Supervision
Americans under community supervision experience high rates of chronic disease, mental illness, and substance use disorders but have poor access to high-quality preventive care and treatment. Pervasive barriers to healthcare and health insurance reinforce poor health, as do restrictions to evidence-based addiction treatment. We propose that community supervision agencies transfer management of the health of supervised individuals to an expanded c…
History of Solitary Confinement Is Associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Individuals Recently Released from Prison
The Case for Improving the Health of Ex-Prisoners
The global prison population exceeds 10 million and continues to grow; more than 30 million people are released from custody annually. These individuals are disproportionately poor, disenfranchised, and chronically ill. There are compelling, evidence-based arguments for improving health outcomes for ex-prisoners on human rights, public health, criminal justice, and economic grounds. These arguments stand in stark contrast to current policy and pr…
Neighborhood Incarceration Rate and Asthma Prevalence in New York City
Objectives. We examined the association between neighborhood incarceration rate and asthma prevalence and morbidity among New York City adults. Methods. We used multilevel modeling techniques and data from the New York City Community Health Survey (2004) to analyze the association between neighborhood incarceration rate and asthma prevalence, adjusting for individual-level sociodemographic, behavioral, and environmental characteristics. We examin…
Hawks et al. Respond
Discharge Planning and Continuity of Health Care
Continuity of health care among the formerly incarcerated is an emerging public health challenge. We used data from the San Francisco County Jail to determine whether discharge planning improves access to care on release. Inmates who were HIV positive and received discharge planning were 6 times more likely to have a regular source of care in the community compared with inmates with other chronic medical conditions, and they were as likely to hav…
Incarceration as a key variable in racial disparities of asthma prevalence
Having been incarcerated may augment racial disparities in asthma among NYC residents. Eliminating health disparities should include a better understanding of the role of incarceration and criminal justice policies in contributing to these disparities
Engaging Individuals Recently Released From Prison Into Primary Care
Objectives. Individuals released from prison have high rates of chronic conditions but minimal engagement in primary care. We compared 2 interventions designed to improve primary care engagement and reduce acute care utilization: Transitions Clinic, a primary care–based care management program with a community health worker, versus expedited primary care. Methods. We performed a randomized controlled trial from 2007 to 2009 among 200 recently rel…
Neighborhood Incarceration Rate and Asthma Prevalence in New York City
Objectives. We examined the association between neighborhood incarceration rate and asthma prevalence and morbidity among New York City adults. Methods. We used multilevel modeling techniques and data from the New York City Community Health Survey (2004) to analyze the association between neighborhood incarceration rate and asthma prevalence, adjusting for individual-level sociodemographic, behavioral, and environmental characteristics. We examin…
Wang et al. Respond
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The Case for Improving the Health of Ex-Prisoners
The global prison population exceeds 10 million and continues to grow; more than 30 million people are released from custody annually. These individuals are disproportionately poor, disenfranchised, and chronically ill. There are compelling, evidence-based arguments for improving health outcomes for ex-prisoners on human rights, public health, criminal justice, and economic grounds. These arguments stand in stark contrast to current policy and pr…
A Heavy Burden
Objectives. We examined the association of family member incarceration with cardiovascular risk factors and disease by gender. Methods. We used a sample of 5470 adults aged 18 years and older in the National Survey of American Life, a 2001–2003 nationally representative cross-sectional survey of Blacks and Whites living in the United States, to examine 5 self-reported health conditions (diabetes, hypertension, heart attack or stroke, obesity, and…
Termination of Medicaid Policies and Implications for the Affordable Care Act
AffiliationsNathan Birnbaum and Emily A. Wang are with the Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Melissa Lavoie is with the Goucher Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program, Towson, MD. Nicole Redmond is with the Division of Preventive Medicine (NR), University of Alabama at Birmingham. Christopher Wildeman is with the Department of Sociology, Yale University
Discrimination based on criminal record and healthcare utilization among men recently released from prison
Recently released prisoners report criminal record discrimination by healthcare workers, and this experience may impact healthcare utilization. Future studies should seek to further characterize criminal record discrimination by healthcare workers and prospectively examine its impact on health outcomes
Gender differences in HIV risk behaviors in individuals recently released from prison
Alcohol-Related Diagnoses and All-Cause Hospitalization Among HIV-Infected and Uninfected Patients
Patients’ experiences managing cardiovascular disease and risk factors in prison
BACKGROUND: Despite greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in patients with a history of incarceration, little is known about how prisons manage CVD risk factors (CVD-RF) to mitigate this risk. METHODS: = 26). These individuals were recruited through community flyers and a primary care clinic in Connecticut. Using a grounded theory approach and the constant comparative method, we inductively generated themes about CVD-RF care in p…
Challenges in Identifying Refugees in National Health Data Sets
Objectives. To evaluate publicly available data sets to determine their utility for studying refugee health. Methods. We searched for keywords describing refugees in data sets within the Society of General Internal Medicine Dataset Compendium and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research database. We included in our analysis US-based data sets with publicly available documentation and a self-defined, health-related focus t…
Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA
What Does Health Justice Look Like for People Returning from Incarceration
Access to health care is a constitutional right in the United States correctional system, and many incarcerated adults are newly diagnosed with chronic diseases in prison. Despite this right, the quality of correctional health care is variable, largely unmeasured and unregulated, and characterized by patients' widespread distrust of a health system that is intimately tied to a punitive criminal justice system. Upon release, discontinuity of care …
History of Solitary Confinement Is Associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Individuals Recently Released from Prison
Preparing for Disaster
Health Literacy Among a Formerly Incarcerated Population Using Data from the Transitions Clinic Network
A conceptual model for understanding post-release opioid-related overdose risk
Post-release opioid-related overdose mortality is the leading cause of death among people released from jails or prisons (PRJP). Informed by the proximate determinants framework, this paper presents the Post-Release Opioid-Related Overdose Risk Model. It explores the underlying, intermediate, proximate and biological determinants which contribute to risk of post-release opioid-related overdose mortality. PRJP share the underlying exposure of inca…
Past year and prior incarceration and HIV transmission risk among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in the US
Three quarters of new HIV infections in the US are among men who have sex with men (MSM). In other populations, incarceration is a social determinant of elevations in viral load and HIV-related substance use and sex risk behavior. There has been limited research on incarceration and these HIV transmission risk determinants in HIV-positive MSM. We used the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) 2011-2012 follow-up survey to measure associations betwee…
The Share Project
The Share Project (TSP), a US health justice initiative, convened key stakeholders to advance the use of inclusive research methods and data sharing to engage groups that are typically marginalized from research. TSP trained justice-involved patients, community health workers, policymakers, and researchers in participatory research and the use of a data-sharing platform developed with justice-involved patients. The platform allowed users to analy…
Measuring Exposure to Incarceration Using the Electronic Health Record
BACKGROUND: Electronic health records (EHRs) are a rich source of health information; however social determinants of health, including incarceration, and how they impact health and health care disparities can be hard to extract. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study was to compare sensitivity and specificity of patient self-report with various methods of identifying incarceration exposure using the EHR. RESEARCH DESIGN: Validation study usi…
Perceived Discrimination Based on Criminal Record in Healthcare Settings and Self-Reported Health Status among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated
What percentage of Americans have ever had a family member incarcerated? To answer this question, we designed the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). The survey was administered in the summer of 2018 by NORC at the University of Chicago using their AmeriSpeak Panel. It was funded by FWD.us, which released a separate report using the data. The data show that 45 percent of Americans have ever had an immediate family member incarcerated…
Decarcerating Correctional Facilities during Covid-19
The conditions and characteristics of correctional facilities - overcrowded with rapid population turnover, often in old and poorly ventilated structures, a spatially concentrated pattern of releases and admissions in low-income communities of color, and a health care system that is siloed from community public health - accelerates transmission of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for COVID-19. Such conditions increase the risk of co…
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