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Brita Roy, MD, MPH, MHS

Assistant Professor Adjunct (General Medicine)
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Director of Population Health, Yale Medicine

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General Internal Medicine

367 Cedar St., ESH-A

New Haven, CT 06510

United States

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Assistant Professor Adjunct (General Medicine)

Director of Population Health, Yale Medicine

Biography

Brita Roy, MD, MPH, MHS is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine (General Medicine) and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health (Chronic Diseases), and Director of Population Health for Yale Medicine.

Dr. Roy is a clinician-investigator who uses epidemiology, complex systems modeling, and community-engaged approaches to investigate the effect of positive psychosocial factors on health outcomes at the individual, community, and clinic/health system levels. She co-authored an evidence-based, actionable, community-level theoretical framework defining and describing collective well-being and its drivers and outcomes. In addition, as the Director of Population Health for Yale, she works to implement programs and processes to improve health outcomes equitably across our health system and communities that we serve. Finally, Dr. Roy also enjoys teaching health professions students and internal medicine residents in the classroom and while taking care of a diverse array of patients on the inpatient general medicine service.

Dr. Roy pursued Bachelors and Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University and Wayne State University, respectively. She then went on to the University of Michigan to complete a combined MD/MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education. Dr. Roy subsequently trained in internal medicine and served as Chief Medical Resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham prior to completing the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

MHS
Yale University School of Medicine
Clinical Scholar
Yale University School of Medicine (with support from The Veterans Administration)
Extern
Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Million Hearts Initiative
Chief Medical Resident
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Resident
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Intern
University of Alabama at Birmingham
MPH
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Health Behavior & Health Education
MD
University of Michigan Medical School
MS
Wayne State University, Biomedical Engineering
BE
Vanderbilt University, Biomedical Engineering

Research

Overview

At the individual level, I investigate how positive psychosocial factors such as optimism, emotion regulation, and resilience mitigate the impact of chronic stress on cardiovascular disease risk. At the community level, I work with community organizations to build social connections and capacity to reduce disease burden. Along these lines, I have developed a framework for understanding collective well-being, a community-level measure of the ability of a place to support and promote health from birth.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Preventive Medicine; Social Justice

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Brita Roy's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

2020

2019

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Leader

  • honor

    Emerging Leaders Program

  • honor

    Fellow Designation

  • honor

    Annie E. Nolte Writing Award

  • honor

    First Author, Editor in Chief Review Article of the Year

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Mailing Address

General Internal Medicine

367 Cedar St., ESH-A

New Haven, CT 06510

United States

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