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Johanna Elumn, MSW, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Additional Titles

Director, NYKS Justice Lab, Internal Medicine

Director, JUSTResearch Training Program, Internal Medicine

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Titles

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, NYKS Justice Lab, Internal Medicine; Director, JUSTResearch Training Program, Internal Medicine

Biography

Johanna Elumn, MSW, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine in General Internal Medicine, Director of the NYKS Justice lab, core faculty of the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, and the evaluation lead of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is a social worker and researcher who brings her personal, clinical, and research experience to studying the intersection of incarceration, sleep, and health disparities using community-engaged research (CEnR) approaches and mixed methods. Her current projects focus on the sleep health of people impacted by incarceration and related health outcomes. In addition, she has expertise in leading interdisciplinary teams and training community members and people with a history of incarceration to work as part of research teams. Prior to transitioning to research, she spent ten years leading the social work unit and community outreach efforts at a community-based public defender office. Her work there focused on designing, implementing, and evaluating 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

Featured Publications

2023

2022

2018

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    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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