Benjamin Howell, MD, MPH, MHS

Dr. Howell is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and faculty in the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine and the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice. Dr. He is board-certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine. Howell is interested in addressing social and structural determinants of health to improve the health outcomes of individuals, families, and communities impacted by mass incarceration and increase access to evidence-based treatments for addiction. His opioid policy research has included assessments of the impact of exposure to correctional systems on MOUD treatment access and opioid overdose outcomes, the impact of Medicaid policy on substance use treatment access, and the use of state-wide, linked data systems to describe barriers to opioid treatment and overdose outcomes. To date he has received funding research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, and the Commonwealth Fund. Along with Dr. Fiellin and Ms. Biegacki, he was a co-author of the Connecticut Opioid Response (CORE) Initiative 2024 Report advising the Connecticut Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee on evidence-based spending of opioid settlement funds. He has been appointed to the Connecticut Correction Advisory Committee and the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Connecticut Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health.