Jin Yung Bae

Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management

Professional overview

Jean Bae is a lawyer and a policy researcher focused on understanding state or local differences in public health laws and how those differences relate to geographic, political, socioeconomic, and racial/ethnic characteristics of the jurisdictions. Her areas of expertise include healthcare access and utilization, immigrant health, reproductive health, firearm and alcohol regulation, as well as criminal justice. 

Prior to joining NYU as a faculty member, Professor Bae worked as a litigation attorney in both corporate and non-profit sectors. She obtained MPH in NYU School of Global Public Health and spent 4 years as a project director on a National Institute of Health (NIH)-sponsored study to identify patterns in the fifty states’ adoption of evidence-based public health laws over a ten-year period.

Professor Bae has comprehensive understanding of how policy decisions are made and what kind of challenges may arise on the ground when implementing policies. She worked as a senior policy analyst at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for 4 years, where she helped implement ActionHealthNYC, the city’s pilot direct access program for undocumented immigrants, and co-led a randomized controlled trial funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Robin Hood Foundation to evaluate its impact on care access and utilization. She also analyzed federal, state, and local policies pertaining to public and private insurance eligibility, benefit design, and financing. 

As the Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs at the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, she oversaw numerous high-profile COVID-19 pandemic responses, including the $21.5 million immigrant emergency cash assistance program that was funded by the Open Society and the Robin Hood Foundation. She also supervised a research team to analyze the projected impact of the Trump-era public charge rule on NYC immigrants’ economic stability and health outcomes, which was cited in a federal appellate court’s decision.

Her current research topics include intersection between firearm and alcohol regulations, racial and socioeconomic disparity in financial burden resulting from criminal offenses, as well as post-Roe v. Wade abortion state law landscape and its impact on access to care.

Education

MPH, New York University

JD, Harvard Law School

Publications

Publications

A Call for Formal Reporting Standards for Legal Research in Public HealthStudies

Bae, J. Y. (n.d.).

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An assessment of court fees, surcharges, and penalties for alcohol-impaired driving in five midwestern U.S. states: implications for exacerbating poverty and health inequalities

Bae, J. Y. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volume

45

Issue

1

Page(s)

58-73

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Assessing Factors Associated with Knowledge of Driving Under the Influence Penalties

Bae, J. Y. (n.d.).

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American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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Protocol for creating a dataset of US state alcohol-related firearm laws 2000–2022

Bae, J. Y. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

PloSONE

Volume

19

Issue

3

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Lower social vulnerability is associated with a higher prevalence of social media-involved violent crimes in Prince George’s County, Maryland, 2018–2023

Bather, J. R., Silver, D. R., Gill, B. P., Harris, A., Bae, J. Y., Parikh, N. S., & Goodman, M. S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

Injury Epidemiology

Volume

11

Issue

1

10.1186/s40621-024-00538-w

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Background: Social vulnerability may play a role in social media-involved crime, but few studies have investigated this issue. We investigated associations between social vulnerability and social media-involved violent crimes. Methods: We analyzed 22,801 violent crimes occurring between 2018 and 2023 in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Social media involvement was obtained from crime reports at the Prince George’s County Police Department. Social media application types included social networking, advertising/selling, ridesharing, dating, image/video hosting, mobile payment, instant messaging/Voice over Internet Protocol, and other. We used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Vulnerability Index to assess socioeconomic status (SES), household characteristics, racial and ethnic minority status, housing type and transportation, and overall vulnerability. Modified Poisson models estimated adjusted prevalence ratios (aPRs) among the overall sample and stratified by crime type (assault and homicide, robbery, and sexual offense). Covariates included year and crime type. Results: Relative to high tertile areas, we observed a higher prevalence of social media-involved violent crimes in areas with low SES vulnerability (aPR: 1.82, 95% CI: 1.37-2.43), low housing type and transportation vulnerability (aPR: 1.53, 95% CI: 1.17-2.02), and low overall vulnerability (aPR: 1.63, 95% CI: 1.23-2.17). Low SES vulnerability areas were significantly associated with higher prevalences of social media-involved assaults and homicides (aPR: 1.64, 95% CI: 1.02-2.62), robberies (aPR: 2.00, 95% CI: 1.28-3.12), and sexual offenses (aPR: 2.07, 95% CI: 1.02-4.19) compared to high SES vulnerability areas. Low housing type and transportation vulnerability (vs. high) was significantly associated with a higher prevalence of social media-involved robberies (aPR: 1.54, 95% CI:1.01-2.37). Modified Poisson models also indicated that low overall vulnerability areas had higher prevalences of social media-involved robberies (aPR: 1.71, 95% CI: 1.10-2.67) and sexual offenses (aPR: 2.14, 95% CI: 1.05-4.39) than high overall vulnerability areas. Conclusions: We quantified the prevalence of social media-involved violent crimes across social vulnerability levels. These insights underscore the need for collecting incident-based social media involvement in crime reports among law enforcement agencies across the United States and internationally. Comprehensive data collection at the national and international levels provides the capacity to elucidate the relationships between neighborhoods, social media, and population health.

Sociodemographic variation in experiences with medication shortages among US adults

Bae, J. Y., Fang, J., Goodman, M. S., Kaphingst, K. A., Parikh, N. S., Bae, J. Y., Silver, D., & Bather, J. R. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volume

51

Page(s)

103004

10.1016/j.pmedr.2025.103004

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Sociodemographic variation in experiences with medication shortages among US adults

Fang, J., Goodman, M. S., Kaphingst, K. A., Parikh, N. S., Bae, J. Y., Silver, D. R., & Bather, J. R. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volume

51

10.1016/j.pmedr.2025.103004

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Objective: To investigate sociodemographic factors associated with prescribed and over-the-counter medication shortage experiences. Methods: We analyzed repeated cross-sectional data from the 2023 US Census Household Pulse Survey, a nationwide survey of US adults. Outcomes were based on the following question: “In the past month, have you or a member of your household been directly affected by the following?” We created binary indicators based on the following response options: (1) “Shortage of prescription medications, which includes any medicine required or provided by a healthcare provider, pharmacist, or hospital” and (2) “Shortage of over-the-counter medications, encompassing any medication available without a prescription.” Sociodemographic factors included age, gender identity, race/ethnicity, marital status, educational attainment, household income, number of children, employment status, health insurance coverage, at risk for depression/anxiety, disability status, and region. Weighted multivariable models accounted for the complex survey design and estimated adjusted odds ratios with 95 % confidence intervals. Results: We found that more experiences with prescribed and over-the-counter medication shortages were associated with middle age, transgender/other gender identity, non-Hispanic Other race/ethnicity, higher educational attainment, having at least one child, at risk for depression or anxiety, and being disabled. In contrast, fewer experiences with prescribed and over-the-counter medication shortages were associated with higher household income. Conclusions: Sociodemographic variation exist in experiences with medication shortages among US adults. These findings underscore the need to bolster the pharmaceutical supply chain to mitigate inequities in medication access.

State Variation in Alcohol-Related Firearm Laws 2010-2023

Bae, J. Y. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

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