| Emily Wang | |
| Workplaces: | Yale School of Medicine |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, San Francisco Harvard University Duke University |
Emily Ai-hua Wang is an American physician who is a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is Director of the Yale SEICHE Center for Health and Justice. She was appointed a MacArthur Fellow in 2022.
Wang earned her bachelor's degree at Harvard University. She moved to Duke University as a medical student, where she completed her studies in 2003. Wang moved to the West Coast for her internship and residency, and eventually earned a Master of Advanced Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.[1]
At the start of her career, Wang planned to specialize in HIV treatment, but she became concerned about health inequality in the incarcerated population. At the time, half of all people in the United States had an incarcerated family member, and communities with high levels of incarceration had lower life expectancy.[2] She began volunteering at a women's prison, and dedicated her career to social justice.
Wang leads the Center for Health and Justice research program "the Health Justice Lab", which studies how incarceration influences chronic health. She is interested in interventions that may mitigate incarceration.[3] She founded the Transitions Clinic Network, a network of health centers who care for people who are released from correctional facilities.[4] [5] [6]