Emily Wang 初级保健医生和研究员

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Emily Wang
初级保健医生和研究员 | 2022级
与刚出狱的人合作，解决他们的需求以及监禁对慢性健康状况的影响。

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标题
初级保健医生和研究人员
工作单位
耶鲁大学医学院
工作地点
康涅狄格州纽黑文市
年龄
获奖时47岁
重点领域
公共卫生和生物医学/健康科学, 卫生保健服务, 卫生政策
网站
耶鲁大学。艾米丽-王
过渡期诊所网络
社会
叽叽喳喳
推特。SEICHE健康与正义中心
2022年9月26日发布
关于艾米莉的工作
Emily Wang是一名医生，研究监禁对健康的影响，并改善出狱者的健康状况。在她的临床实践和研究中，Wang与涉及司法的人群密切合作，开发有效的临床服务，并加深对他们所面临的医疗服务的结构性障碍的理解。

个人在监狱里接受的医疗服务质量差异很大。出狱后，他们在惩教机构的医疗提供者不能继续治疗。对于疾病负担较重的人群来说，缺乏过渡性护理是导致健康状况不佳的主要原因，并大大加剧了现有的健康差异。在加州大学旧金山分校做住院医生时，王女士目睹了可预防的住院率很高，以及那些出狱后重新进入社区的病人的急性健康状况，但控制得不好。作为回应，她共同创立了过渡期诊所项目，为这一高度脆弱的人群提供初级保健和其他支持服务。该计划的核心内容之一是重点招募、培训和雇用有监禁经历的人，作为社区卫生工作者与医务人员一起工作。这些初级保健团队的重要成员将新病人与适当的服务联系起来，建立基本的信任关系，并提供慢性病自我管理支持。王晓东进行了随机对照试验，证明了过渡诊所服务的有效性，现在他指导该倡议的研究工作，该倡议已扩展到过渡诊所网络（TCN），这是一个由14个州和波多黎各的48家诊所组成的联盟。TCN是其他卫生系统努力解决其自身护理差距的模式。在她在耶鲁大学医学院健康正义实验室的工作中，王女士扩大了她的承诺，让有监禁历史的人成为研究中的关键伙伴。该实验室的主要项目涉及以下主题：帮助人们在出狱后继续接受阿片类药物使用障碍治疗的初级保健策略；监禁对癌症检测、治疗和生存的影响；以及与司法有关的个人中心血管疾病风险因素的流行病学研究。

2020年，Wang成为SEICHE健康和正义中心的首任主任，这是耶鲁大学医学院和耶鲁大学法学院的合作项目。该中心将健康、法律和刑事司法等不同领域联系起来，研究具体政策和干预措施如何影响受大规模监禁影响的个人和社区的福祉。目前，SEICHE的一个项目考虑了教养机构中COVID-19测试和预防措施的道德问题和潜在的解决方案。另一个项目探讨了由社区主导的减少枪支暴力事件的策略。通过她所提供的有尊严的直接护理和她所领导的严格的研究，Wang正在照亮复杂的健康需求和不公平现象，这些需求和不公平现象在很大程度上被掩盖在公众视野之外。

个人简历
艾米丽-王在哈佛大学获得学士学位（1997年），在杜克大学医学院获得医学博士学位（2003年），并在加州大学旧金山分校获得硕士学位（2008年）。她与执行主任Shira Shavit, MD是过渡诊所网络的共同创始人。自2008年以来，她一直隶属于耶鲁大学医学院，目前担任该校内科系的教授。她还在耶鲁大学公共卫生学院的社会和行为科学系任职，并且是SEICHE健康与正义中心的主任。她的作品发表在《柳叶刀》、《美国医学会杂志》和《美国公共卫生杂志》以及其他科学杂志上。



Emily Wang
Primary Care Physician and Researcher | Class of 2022
Partnering with people recently released from prison to address their needs and the ways that incarceration influences chronic health conditions.


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Title
Primary Care Physician and Researcher
Affiliation
Yale University School of Medicine
Location
New Haven, Connecticut
Age
47 at time of award
Area of Focus
Public Health and Biomedical/Health Sciences, Health Care Delivery, Health Policy
Website
Yale University: Emily Wang
Transitions Clinic Network
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Twitter: SEICHE Center for Health and Justice
Published September 26, 2022
ABOUT EMILY’S WORK
Emily Wang is a physician investigating the health-harming effects of incarceration and improving health outcomes for people exiting prison. In her clinical practice and research, Wang partners closely with justice-involved populations to develop effective clinical services and to deepen understanding of the structural barriers to healthcare access that they face.

Individuals receive healthcare of highly variable quality while in prison. Upon release, their medical providers from correctional facilities cannot continue treatment. The lack of transitional care for a population with high burdens of disease is a major driver of poor health outcomes and significantly exacerbates existing health disparities. While a medical resident at the University of California, San Francisco, Wang witnessed high rates of preventable hospitalizations and acute, yet poorly controlled, health conditions among patients who were reentering their communities after prison. In response, she co-founded the Transitions Clinic program to provide primary care and other support services to this highly vulnerable population. Among the program’s core components is a focus on recruiting, training, and employing people with lived experience of incarceration to work alongside medical staff as community health workers. These vital members of a primary care team connect new patients with appropriate services, build essential relationships of trust, and provide chronic disease self-management support. Wang has conducted randomized control trials demonstrating the effectiveness of Transitions Clinic services and now directs research for the initiative, which has expanded into the Transitions Clinic Network (TCN), a consortium of 48 clinics in 14 states and Puerto Rico. TCN serves as a model for other health systems working to address their own gaps in care. In her work at the Health Justice Lab at Yale School of Medicine, Wang extends her commitment to engaging people with histories of incarceration as key partners in research. The Lab’s major projects have addressed such subjects as primary care strategies to help people remain in treatment for opioid use disorders after release from jail; the impact of incarceration on disparities in cancer detection, treatment, and survival; and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease risk factors among justice-involved individuals.

In 2020, Wang became the inaugural director of the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, a collaboration between Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School. The center bridges the disparate domains of health, law, and criminal justice to study how specific policies and interventions affect the well-being of individuals and communities impacted by mass incarceration. One current SEICHE project considers the ethical concerns and potential solutions for COVID-19 testing and prevention measures in correctional facilities. Another explores community-led strategies for reducing incidences of gun violence. Through the dignified, direct care she provides and the rigorous research she leads, Wang is shining a light on complex health needs and inequities that are largely obscured from public view.

BIOGRAPHY
Emily Wang received an AB (1997) from Harvard University, an MD (2003) from Duke University School of Medicine, and an MAS (2008) from the University of California at San Francisco. She is the co-founder, with executive director Shira Shavit, MD, of the Transitions Clinic Network. Since 2008 she has been affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine, where she currently serves as a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. She holds an additional appointment in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and is the director of the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice. Her work has been published in The Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, and American Journal of Public Health, among other scientific journals.