{{Short description|American physician and professor}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Emily Wang | workplaces = Yale School of Medicine | alma_mater = University of California, San Francisco <br> Harvard University <br> 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.
== Early life and education == 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emily Wang |url=https://www.yalemedicine.org/specialists/emily-wang |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=Yale Medicine |language=en}}</ref>
== Research and career == 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2021-12-06 |title=Alumni Spotlight: Emily Wang, MD’03 |url=https://medschool.duke.edu/news/alumni-spotlight-emily-wang-md03 |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=Duke University School of Medicine |language=en}}</ref> She began volunteering at a women's prison, and dedicated her career to social justice.<ref name=":0" />
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emily Wang, MD, MAS |url=https://medicine.yale.edu/seiche/profile/emily-wang/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=medicine.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref> She founded the Transitions Clinic Network, a network of health centers who care for people who are released from correctional facilities.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=National Academy of Medicine Elects New Members From Yale |url=https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/national-academy-of-medicine-elects-new-members-from-yale/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=medicine.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Emily Wang, MD, MAS – Transitions Clinic |url=https://transitionsclinic.org/leadership/emily-wang-md/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Emily Wang |url=https://squareonejustice.org/expert/emily-wang/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=Square One Project |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Awards and honors == * 2021 Elected Fellow of the American Society for Clinical Investigation<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://beta.the-asci.org/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=The American Society for Clinical Investigation |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2022 MacArthur Fellows Program<ref>{{Cite web |last=Parry |first=Julie |date=2022-10-12 |title=Yale’s Emily Wang and two alumni win MacArthur ‘genius’ awards |url=https://news.yale.edu/2022/10/12/yales-emily-wang-and-two-alumni-win-macarthur-genius-awards |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=YaleNews |language=en}}</ref> * 2023 Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine<ref name=":1" />
== Selected publications == * {{Cite Q|Q39237659}} * {{Cite Q|Q58206583}} * {{Cite Q|Q55205913}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Emily}} Category:Living people Category:Harvard College alumni Category:Duke University School of Medicine alumni Category:University of California, San Francisco alumni Category:Yale School of Medicine faculty Category:Members of the National Academy of Medicine Category:MacArthur Fellows Category:Year of birth missing (living people)