Please join us for a Joint GWU/CTSI-CN/Washington DC VA Informatics Seminar taking place Wednesday, October 30th, 11:00am - noon Eastern Daylight Time. Dr. Karen Wang of Yale University will present:
A Digital Health App for People with a History of Incarceration: Community-Engaged, Co-Design Approach
Individuals released from incarceration have high rates of hospitalization and death, especially in the weeks immediately after their return to community settings. During this transitional process, persons leaving incarceration are expected to interact with multiple providers working in separate, complex systems, including health care clinics, social service agencies, community-based organizations, and probation and parole services. This navigation is often complicated by issues of physical and mental health, literacy and fluency, and socioeconomic status. In this talk, Dr. Karen Wang will overview a mobile app created to help recently-incarcerated individuals successfully connect with needed services and manage personal information.
Dr. Karen Wang is an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine. She is a primary care internist with training in health services research and informatics. Her work is at the intersection of health equity, informatics, and data justice with a focus in optimizing health and health-related information, data, and technology for communities that have been marginalized. Her research goal is to improve the health of communities that have been marginalized by engaging them in the collection and use of health data and improving the quality of social and structural determinants of health data, such as race, ethnicity, residential address, and SOGI She’ll discuss an NIH/NLM-funded study focused on developing a digital app for people with a history of incarceration to improve health.