JUSTResearch, FamJUSTICE and InJUSTICE

JUSTResearch, FamJUSTICE and InJUSTICE – Yale University SEICHE Center for Health and Justice and JustLeadershipUSA: This team will be led by Emily Wang, M.D., M.A.S., a professor of medicine and public health at Yale University and director of the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice and DeAnna Hoskins, M.A., the president and CEO of JustLeadershipUSA, a national organization based in New York. This team will explore why people who are incarcerated, along with their family members, are likely to have an increased risk of poor health, especially poor heart health. They will work with individuals who are formerly incarcerated to design research projects to identify health and wellness barriers. The team will collect data to determine what health risk factors may be most prevalent among people in prison and their family members and what types of interventions might be most successful in improving their health. The team plans to develop protocols and practices for a toolkit that can be used by community-academic partnerships to engage people impacted by mass incarceration in future research.

Aims List:

InJUSTICE:

- Aim 1: To identify feasible and ethical strategies for engaging individuals who are incarcerated in cardiovascular research

- Aim 2: To test the effectiveness of different Aim 1 strategies to improve participation of incarcerated people in cardiovascular research.

- Aim 3: To examine the association between increased exposure to mass incarceration and cardiovascular health.

FamJUSTICE:

- Aim 1: To identify feasible and ethical strategies for engaging individuals whose family members are incarcerated in cardiovascular research.

- Aim 2: To test the effectiveness of different strategies for engagement that arise in Aim 1 in improving participation of family members of individuals whose families are incarcerated in cardiovascular research.

- Aim 3: To examine the association between increasing exposure to mass incarceration and cardiovascular health.