Johanna Elumn, MSW, PhD
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Director, NYKS Justice Lab, Internal Medicine
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Director, NYKS Justice Lab, Internal Medicine
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Director, NYKS Justice Lab, Internal Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, NYKS Justice Lab, Internal MedicineBiography
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.
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General Internal Medicine
Assistant ProfessorPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- General Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Janeway Society
- Office of DEI in Medicine
- SEICHE Center for Health and Justice
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
Publications Timeline
Emily Wang, MD, MAS
Henry Yaggi, MD, MPH
Jenerius Aminawung, MD, MPH
Lisa Puglisi, MD
Nadine Horton
Publications
The sleep justice study - a prospective cohort study assessing sleep as a cardiometabolic risk factor after incarceration: a protocol paper
Elumn J, Saeed G, Aminawung J, Horton N, Lin H, Yaggi H, Wang E. The sleep justice study - a prospective cohort study assessing sleep as a cardiometabolic risk factor after incarceration: a protocol paper. BMC Public Health 2023, 23: 2107. PMID: 37884957, PMCID: PMC10605958, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16985-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsCVD risk factor controlPittsburgh Sleep Quality IndexRisk factor controlRisk factorsSleep healthCardiovascular healthCarceral facilitiesEpidemiology of CVDCardiometabolic risk factorsCardiovascular risk factorsCardiovascular disease eventsOngoing prospective cohortProspective cohort studySleep Quality IndexPopulation-specific risk factorsHistory of incarcerationRest-activity patternsObjective measuresSTOP-BangCardiovascular outcomesCardiovascular riskCohort studyProspective cohortCVD epidemiologyFactor controlHIV/STI/HCV Risk Clusters and Hierarchies Experienced by Women Recently Released from Incarceration
Johnson K, Hunt T, Puglisi L, Chapman B, Epa-Llop A, Elumn J, Braick P, Bhagat N, Ko E, Nguyen A, Johnson R, Graham H, Gilbert L, El-Bassel N, Morse D. HIV/STI/HCV Risk Clusters and Hierarchies Experienced by Women Recently Released from Incarceration. Healthcare 2023, 11: 1066. PMID: 37107900, PMCID: PMC10137919, DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11081066.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsHard drug useHCV outcomesRisk clustersCross-sectional clusterEvidence-based interventionsOnly significant predictorHCV riskTransition clinicSTI outcomesHIV interventionsHigher oddsTransition interventionsDrug useSociodemographic characteristicsLogistic regressionLifetime traumaMental healthLogistic regression methodSubstance useWomenSignificant predictorsIntimate partner violenceInterventionRegression analysisOutcomesBeing a Peer Community Health Worker: Restoring Ourselves and the Community
Elumn, J.E., Dempster, D., Powers, J., Saunders, M., Johnson, K.A., Hunt, T., ... Morse, D. (2023). Being a Peer Community Health Worker: Restoring Ourselves and the Community. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action 17(4), 731-738. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/914129.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
activity Reviewer
Journal ServiceAmerican Journal of Public HealthDetails2017 - 2021honor NHLBI Programs to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program Summer Institute (BSM PRIDE)
National AwardNHLBI/NYU School of MedicineDetails07/19/2020United Stateshonor Diversity Supplement (postdoctoral)
Other AwardNHLBIDetails05/01/2020United Stateshonor Loan Repayment Program
National AwardNIH/NIMHDDetails07/01/2019, 07/01/2018, 07/01/2017United Stateshonor NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Yale School of Public Health
Yale University AwardNational Institute of Mental HealthDetails09/01/2016United States
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News
- October 05, 2023
Voices of DEI: Johanna Elumn, MSW, PhD
- December 18, 2022
Yale Insights in Cardiovascular Medicine: 2022
- April 07, 2022
Yale study finds persistent racial and ethnic disparities in sleep duration
- April 07, 2022Source: Yale News
Persistent Racial and Ethnic Disparities Found in Sleep Duration
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