Renata West Yen, PhD, MPH

Research Scientist

The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Renata is a health services researcher at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. She works on the OpenRecordings team under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Barr. Her research focuses on patient-clinician communication, particularly for patients with lower health literacy or who are socially disadvantaged.

She completed her PhD in Health Policy & Clinical Practice at Dartmouth in 2023. For her PhD, she studied how to measure clinician use of plain language in healthcare encounters and the impact of shared decision-making interventions for socially disadvantaged populations. Before moving into research, Renata worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a public health associate, tracking transmission of communicable diseases at a health department in St. Petersburg, Florida. Renata received a Masters in Public Health from Dartmouth in 2016 and a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Biology & Society and Development Sociology from Cornell University.

Outside of work, Renata spends her time with her husband and two kids in their yard or otherwise outside. She is a novice gardener and also makes a decent lasagna.

 

Email

Renata.West.Yen@dartmouth.edu

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BGQsqI0AAAAJ&hl=en

Twitter

@Renatayen