Michael Mensah, MD, MHS, MPH
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Michael O. Mensah, MD, MPH completed his residency in psychiatry at UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience, where he served as chief resident, prior to coming to Yale. Dr. Mensah received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy and African American Studies from Princeton University and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He earned his MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a Zuckerman Fellow. During residency, he was elected to the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees as the only voting trainee member, and currently serves as co-editor of Psychiatric Service's race and mental health column. His early career research and writing concerns racial and gender equity within medicine's workforce, and has been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, Scientific American, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Career Interests: Dr Mensah intends to embark on a career that prioritizes addiction, mental illness, and racism against their respective stigmas in order to de-ostracize marginalized and minoritized populations.
Research interests: Gender salary equity, Race and mental illness, systems based care, interventional psychiatry, access to psychiatric services
Education & Training
- MHS
- Yale University , National Clinician Scholars Program (2023)
- MD
- University of California, San Francisco (2017)
- MPH
- Harvard School of Public Health (2016)
- AB
- Princeton University, Philosophy and African American Studied (2010)
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Joseph Ross, MD, MHS
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Featured Publications
US Postgraduate Trainee Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Representation and Faculty Compensation By Specialty
Mensah M, Owda D, Simons E, Holaday L, Bonner S, Mangurian C, Ross J. US Postgraduate Trainee Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Representation and Faculty Compensation By Specialty. JAMA 2023, 330: 872-874. PMID: 37535361, PMCID: PMC10401393, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.14139.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricDecoupling Crisis Response from Policing - A Step Toward Equitable Psychiatric Emergency Services.
Rafla-Yuan E, Chhabra DK, Mensah MO. Decoupling Crisis Response from Policing - A Step Toward Equitable Psychiatric Emergency Services. The New England Journal Of Medicine 2021, 384: 1769-1773. PMID: 33951369, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2035710.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRacism and Mental Health Equity: History Repeating Itself
Mensah M, Ogbu-Nwobodo L, Shim RS. Racism and Mental Health Equity: History Repeating Itself. Psychiatric Services 2021, 72: 1091-1094. PMID: 33430652, DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000755.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricSex Differences in Salaries of Department Chairs at Public Medical Schools
Mensah M, Beeler W, Rotenstein L, Jagsi R, Spetz J, Linos E, Mangurian C. Sex Differences in Salaries of Department Chairs at Public Medical Schools. JAMA Internal Medicine 2020, 180: 789-792. PMID: 32119059, PMCID: PMC7052792, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.7540.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
2024
Profiles in Wisdom A Survey of Leading Psychiatrists to Inform the Diversity of the Future Psychiatric Workforce
Mensah M, Collison A, Dacarett-Galeano D, Stewart A. Profiles in Wisdom A Survey of Leading Psychiatrists to Inform the Diversity of the Future Psychiatric Workforce. Child And Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics Of North America 2024, 33: 1-15. PMID: 37981332, DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2023.06.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH Keywords and Concepts
2023
Worse Access, Quality, and Leadership—Redressing the Affirmative Action Ruling’s Litany of Harms
Mensah M, Sommers S, Sommers B. Worse Access, Quality, and Leadership—Redressing the Affirmative Action Ruling’s Litany of Harms. JAMA Health Forum 2023, 4: e234099. PMID: 37796522, DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.4099.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsMeSH KeywordsLeadershipStructural Factors in Health Care Associated With the Mental Health Needs of Black Women in California During the Perinatal Period.
James KF, Klomhaus AM, Elliott T, Mensah M, Jeffers KS, Choi KR. Structural Factors in Health Care Associated With the Mental Health Needs of Black Women in California During the Perinatal Period. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 2023 PMID: 37634545, DOI: 10.1016/j.jogn.2023.08.002.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
US Post-Graduate Residency Competitiveness, Trainee Diversity, and Future Salary Among 12 Clinical Specialties
Mensah M, Ghanney Simons E, Mangurian C, Ross J. US Post-Graduate Residency Competitiveness, Trainee Diversity, and Future Salary Among 12 Clinical Specialties. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2022, 38: 1567-1569. PMID: 36357730, PMCID: PMC10160250, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-07868-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricDismantling Structural Racism in Psychiatric Residency Training: Nurturing a New Generation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Psychiatrists
Pacheco N, Trinh NH, Jahan A, Mensah M, Felix G, Clark F, Strong S, Hairston D. Dismantling Structural Racism in Psychiatric Residency Training: Nurturing a New Generation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Psychiatrists. Academic Psychiatry 2022, 46: 657-662. PMID: 35857267, DOI: 10.1007/s40596-022-01678-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricProfiles in Wisdom A Survey of Leading Psychiatrists to Inform the Diversity of the Future Psychiatric Workforce
Mensah MO, Collison A, Dacarett-Galeano D, Stewart AJ. Profiles in Wisdom A Survey of Leading Psychiatrists to Inform the Diversity of the Future Psychiatric Workforce. Psychiatric Clinics Of North America 2022, 45: 227-241. PMID: 35680239, DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2022.03.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts