Emily Wang, MD, MAS

Emily Wang is a professor in the 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 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 National Institutes of Health funding 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 which mitigate the impacts of incarceration. Her work been published in the Lancet, JAMA, American Journal of Public Health, and Health Affairs, and showcased in national outlets such as the New York Times, NPR, and CNN. As an internist, she has cared for thousands of individuals with a history of incarceration and is co-founder of the Transitions Clinic Network, a consortium of 48 community health centers nationwide dedicated to caring for individuals recently released from correctional facilities by employing community health workers with histories of incarceration. Dr. Wang serves on the Board of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the World Health Organization Health in Prisons Programme. 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 AB from Harvard University, an MD from Duke University, and a MAS from the University of California, San Francisco.