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Carmen Black, MD, MHS-Med Ed, is an Assistant Professor Adjunct in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, with a primary clinical appointment at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. Her research focuses on promoting racial health equity in academic medicine and addressing systemic racism in clinical practice, particularly in behavioral emergencies. She advocates for depolicing in healthcare and has pioneered the concept of Behavioral Emergency Response Teams (BERTs) to replace security-based interventions.
Education: MD from Medical College of Georgia (2015), BSc in Psychology from Concordia University (2008). Board-certified in Psychiatry.
Key research interests include historical trauma in medicine (e.g., Tuskegee legacy), stylistic writing strategies for equity, and iatrogenic harms from biased care practices. Recent publications emphasize language reform in medical literature and ethical frameworks for marginalized patient populations.
Notable awards include the Public Voices Fellowship (2022) and Yale SOM’s FEDI Award (2019). She co-leads initiatives to integrate sociohistorical justice into geriatric psychiatry training and advocates for depolicing policies in acute care settings.