Brita Roy, MD, MPH, MHS
Assistant Professor Adjunct (General Medicine)Cards
Appointments
Additional Titles
Director of Population Health, Yale Medicine
Contact Info
General Internal Medicine
367 Cedar St., ESH-A
New Haven, CT 06510
United States
Appointments
Additional Titles
Director of Population Health, Yale Medicine
Contact Info
General Internal Medicine
367 Cedar St., ESH-A
New Haven, CT 06510
United States
Appointments
Additional Titles
Director of Population Health, Yale Medicine
Contact Info
General Internal Medicine
367 Cedar St., ESH-A
New Haven, CT 06510
United States
About
Titles
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
General Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor AdjunctPrimary
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)
Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Emily Wang, MD, MAS
Nadine Horton
Danya Keene, PhD
Donna Spiegelman, ScD
Erica Spatz, MD, MHS
Guangyu Tong, PhD
Publications
2023
Trusted residents and housing assistance to decrease violence exposure in New Haven (TRUE HAVEN): a strengths-based and community-driven stepped-wedge intervention to reduce gun violence
Tong G, Spell V, Horton N, Thornhill T, Keene D, Montgomery C, Spiegelman D, Wang E, Roy B. Trusted residents and housing assistance to decrease violence exposure in New Haven (TRUE HAVEN): a strengths-based and community-driven stepped-wedge intervention to reduce gun violence. BMC Public Health 2023, 23: 1545. PMID: 37580653, PMCID: PMC10426138, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15997-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsGun violenceHousing assistanceStructural racismHousing stabilityViolence exposureMulti-level interventionsCommunity gun violenceMulti-stakeholder coalitionsRental assistance programsCommunity-based organizationsHousing supportPolicy changesFinancial educationStable housingBeing of individualsViolenceTarget neighborhoodsCommunity membersNew HavenNeighborhood ratesAssistance programsOrganization leadersRacismHavenNeighborhoodWhy Are There So Few Women Medical School Deans? Debunking the Myth That Shorter Tenures Drive Disparities
Gottlieb A, Roy B, Herrin J, Holaday L, Weiss J, Salazar M, Okoli N, Nagarkatti N, Otridge J, Pomeroy C. Why Are There So Few Women Medical School Deans? Debunking the Myth That Shorter Tenures Drive Disparities. Academic Medicine 2023, 99: 63-69. PMID: 37418698, DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000005315.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricAssociation of Population Well-Being With Cardiovascular Outcomes
Spatz E, Roy B, Riley C, Witters D, Herrin J. Association of Population Well-Being With Cardiovascular Outcomes. JAMA Network Open 2023, 6: e2321740. PMID: 37405774, PMCID: PMC10323707, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.21740.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsPopulation health factorsCVD mortalityCoronary heart diseaseCross-sectional studyHeart diseaseCardiovascular diseaseSecondary outcomesHealth factorsCardiovascular outcomesHeart failureCardiovascular healthMortality rateCounty-level ratesLower CVD mortalityTotal CVD mortalityCardiovascular death ratesAcute myocardial infarctionTotal heart diseaseEffect sizePrimary outcomeHighest quintileLowest quintileMyocardial infarctionNational HealthMAIN OUTCOME“We know what's going on in our community”: A qualitative analysis identifying community assets that deter gun violence
Parsons A, Harvey T, Andrade S, Horton N, Brinkley-Rubenstein L, Wood G, Holaday L, Riley C, Spell V, Papachristos A, Wang E, Roy B. “We know what's going on in our community”: A qualitative analysis identifying community assets that deter gun violence. SSM - Qualitative Research In Health 2023, 3: 100258. PMID: 37483654, PMCID: PMC10361409, DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100258.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsGun violenceSocial cohesionCommunity gun violenceCommunity-led solutionsCommunities of colorCommunity-based organizationsGun violence epidemicViolence epidemicLocal assetsHome ownershipCommunity assetsDepth interviewsCommunity perspectiveSocial structureViolenceStable housingYouth activitiesEmergent themesQualitative studyRole modelsQualitative analysisCommunityMental health servicesCommunity-based mental health servicesCohesion
2020
Organizational Culture, Practices, and Patterns of Interaction that Drive the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine: Second-Generation Gender Bias and Other Complexities
Roy B, Gottlieb A. Organizational Culture, Practices, and Patterns of Interaction that Drive the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine: Second-Generation Gender Bias and Other Complexities. 2020, 7-16. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-51031-2_2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsSecond-generation gender biasGender biasCultural assumptionsSocial expectationsDomestic responsibilitiesPatterns of interactionCompetent cliniciansOrganizational cultureWomen's careersGender-based differencesGender pay gapCareerProfessional resourcesHealthcare workplaceNegotiationsCultureEducatorsPay gapAdministrative leadersPracticeWomen physicians
2019
Reframing healthcare services through the lens of Co-Production: teaching health professionals to explore the link between patient care, coproduction, and the Social Quality Model
Bart B, Wollersheim H, Carlson M, Roy B, Jones S, Hesselink G, Batalden P, Wolf J, de Man Y, Groenewoud S, Johnson J. Reframing healthcare services through the lens of Co-Production: teaching health professionals to explore the link between patient care, coproduction, and the Social Quality Model. International Journal Of Integrated Care 2019, 19: 570. DOI: 10.5334/ijic.s3570.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth professionalsPatient careHealth professional studentsCongestive heart failureHealthcare servicesBetter health outcomesLong-term illnessHeart failureChronic illnessPrinciples of coproductionIndividual patientsHealth outcomesHealthcare professionalsSocial determinantsInformal caregiversHealth professions studentsPatientsProfessional studentsCareCase-based teaching modulesIllnessCase-based workshopsProfessions studentsEducation moduleSocial careChallenges of an attempted cross-national comparison of healthcare and social care utilization and costs in patients with congestive heart failure in the United States and Netherlands
Carlson M, De Man Y, Roy B, Wolf J, Batalden P, Johson J, Hesselink G, Jones S, Wollersheim H, Bart B, Groenewoud S. Challenges of an attempted cross-national comparison of healthcare and social care utilization and costs in patients with congestive heart failure in the United States and Netherlands. International Journal Of Integrated Care 2019, 19: 605. DOI: 10.5334/ijic.s3605.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe Social Quality Model and its impact on quality of life among patients with heart failure in the United States and the Netherlands: results from a cross-national survey
Roy B, Wolf J, Carlson M, Akkermans R, Bart B, Batalden P, Johnson J, Jones S, DeMan Y, Groenewoud S, Maassen I, Wollersheim H, Hesselink G. The Social Quality Model and its impact on quality of life among patients with heart failure in the United States and the Netherlands: results from a cross-national survey. International Journal Of Integrated Care 2019, 19: 558. DOI: 10.5334/ijic.s3558.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPeople mover's distance: Class level geometry using fast pairwise data adaptive transportation costs
Cloninger A, Roy B, Riley C, Krumholz H. People mover's distance: Class level geometry using fast pairwise data adaptive transportation costs. Applied And Computational Harmonic Analysis 2019, 47: 248-257. DOI: 10.1016/j.acha.2018.10.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitations
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
honor AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Leader
National AwardAssociation of American Medical CollegesDetails07/12/2022United Stateshonor Emerging Leaders Program
Yale School of Medicine AwardYale MedicineDetails09/01/2021United Stateshonor Fellow Designation
National AwardThe Institute for Integrative HealthDetails05/01/2020United Stateshonor Annie E. Nolte Writing Award
National AwardFoundation for the Advancement of Health EducationDetails01/31/2020United Stateshonor First Author, Editor in Chief Review Article of the Year
National AwardAmerican Journal of Health PromotionDetails01/29/2019United States
News & Links
Media
News
- December 18, 2022
Yale Insights in Cardiovascular Medicine: 2022
- November 01, 2022
Study Finds Americans Experienced Increased Barriers to Health Care Over the Past 20 Years
- October 10, 2022
Yale Partners With the Urban League and Others to Address Gun Violence in New Haven
- July 28, 2022
Meet Yale Internal Medicine: Brita Roy, MD, MPH, MHS
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General Internal Medicine
367 Cedar St., ESH-A
New Haven, CT 06510
United States