She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. Integrating her background in social psychology and public health, Dr. Wang examines various mechanisms (e.g., self and emotion regulation processes) through which stigma operates to drive adverse mental and behavioral health outcomes among people with disabilities, sexual minorities, and individuals with mental illnesses. Additionally, she is interested in identifying adaptive coping resources that mitigate the negative impact of stigma on health, with the objective of developing accessible, cost-effective psychosocial interventions to alleviate health disparities.