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Dr. Karen Wang is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine, affiliated with the Equity Research and Innovation Center and Yale Center for Medical Informatics. Her work focuses on health equity, informatics, and data justice, particularly for marginalized communities. She holds joint appointments in Internal Medicine (General Medicine), Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, and Biostatistics. Dr. Wang’s research emphasizes participatory approaches to improve health data quality and access for underserved populations, including those with incarceration histories.
Education: MD from Baylor College of Medicine (2004), MHS from Yale School of Medicine (2012), postdoctoral training at Yale/VA Connecticut Healthcare System (2016) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program (2012). Board certifications in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
Research Interests: Health equity, electronic health record optimization, incarceration-health linkages, participatory health informatics. Key projects include designing personal health libraries for incarcerated individuals and improving race/ethnicity data standards.
Publications (2025–2021) highlight ED care for the incarcerated, EHR-based residential mobility analysis, and telehealth equity during the pandemic. Collaborators include leaders in health equity and informatics like Emily Wang and Cynthia Brandt.
Labs/Teams: Equity Research and Innovation Center, Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity, SEICHE Center for Health and Justice (collaborative).