Emily Wang, MD

Emily Wang, MD, is an internal medicine specialist with a longstanding interest in helping and treating patients with a history of incarceration or substance abuse.

Dr. Wang is the director of the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice. This center is a collaboration between Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School that aims to identify factors that can improve the health of those impacted by mass incarceration.

She also leads the National Institutes of Health-funded Health Justice Lab’s research program. This program investigates the connections between incarceration and chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and opioid use disorder.

Dr. Wang has served on the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine’s Health and Incarceration Workshop, Means of Violence Workshop, and the Steering Committee on Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in Population Health Data Programs.

She is a professor of medicine (general medicine) and a professor of public health (social and behavioral sciences) at Yale School of Medicine. She is also the co-director of the Center for Research Engagement.