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Johanna Elumn, MSW, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Director, NYKS Justice Lab, Internal Medicine

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Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, NYKS Justice Lab, Internal Medicine

Biography

Johanna Elumn, MSW, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Elumn's research focuses on sleep health disparities among people involved in the criminal legal system using CBPR approaches. She has served as director of several projects including Women on the Road to Health (WORTH Transitions) and The Share Project (TSP). She is a fellow of the Program to Increase Diversity in Behavioral Medicine & Sleep Disorders Research (PRIDE) at the NYU School of Medicine and the Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program on Substance Use, HIV, and Comorbidities. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NIMH Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention Training Program of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). As a social worker, her direct service experience focused on designing, evaluating, and implementing services for those involved in the criminal legal system at all stages of their contact, from pre-arrest to reentry.


Appointments

Education & Training

Postdoctoral Fellow
Miriam Hospital/The Alpert Medical School, Brown University (2021)
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Yale School of Public Health (2017)
PhD
The Graduate Center/CUNY, Social Welfare (2016)
MSW
Columbia University School of Social Work (2000)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Johanna Elumn's published research.

Publications

2023

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    American Journal of Public Health

  • honor

    NHLBI Programs to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program Summer Institute (BSM PRIDE)

  • honor

    Diversity Supplement (postdoctoral)

  • honor

    Loan Repayment Program

  • honor

    NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Yale School of Public Health

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