Johanna Elumn, MSW, PhD

Johanna Elumn, MSW, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine in General Internal Medicine, Director of the NYKS Justice lab, core faculty of the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, and the evaluation lead of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is a social worker and researcher who brings her personal, clinical, and research experience to studying the intersection of incarceration, sleep, and health disparities using community-engaged research (CEnR) approaches and mixed methods. Her current projects focus on the sleep health of people impacted by incarceration and related health outcomes. In addition, she has expertise in leading interdisciplinary teams and training community members and people with a history of incarceration to work as part of research teams. Prior to transitioning to research, she spent ten years leading the social work unit and community outreach efforts at a community-based public defender office. Her work there focused on designing, implementing, and evaluating services for those involved in the criminal legal system at all stages of their contact, from pre-arrest to reentry.