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

Limits of the U.S. law: for whom does the immigration law exist?

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Sensitive places, persistent violence: Effectiveness of ???Bar Ban??? laws in reducing gun violence near alcohol vendors

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A Call for Formal Reporting Standards for Legal Research in Public Health Studies

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Assessing factors associated with knowledge of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) penalties

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Sociodemographic variation in experiences with medication shortages among US adults

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Sociodemographic variation in experiences with medication shortages among US adults

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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

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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

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

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State Variation in Alcohol-Related Firearm Laws 2010-2023

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How Do States Regulate the Intersection of Alcohol and Firearms? A 50-State Assessment of Alcohol-Related Firearm Laws 2010–2023

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