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Soowon Kim, PhD
Soowon Kim, Ph.D. received a B.S. and a M.S. in Food and Nutrition from Yonsei
University in Seoul, South Korea. She received a Ph.D. in Nutrition Epidemiology
from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Public Health.
Her work at UNC included understanding the nutrition transition; examining trends
in diet and diet-related noncommunicable diseases, the costs of the nutrition
transition, and policy options to prevent diet-related chronic diseases in Asia
and the Pacific; developing an index that evaluates overall healthfulness of lifestyle;
and an analysis measuring the full economic costs of diet, physical activity,
and obesity-related chronic diseases. She was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship
from the W.K. Kellogg Scholars in Health Disparities Program and her work at the
University of California, San Francisco program site focused on examining disparities
in various health behaviors and outcomes.
Currently, she is a data analyst/program manager for the Health Improvement Program
(HIP) at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, where previously as a visiting
scholar, she had collaborated on projects that investigated the effect of physical
and social environments on health behaviors and outcomes. At HIP, she has been
designing and evaluating several health promotion efforts conducted outside as
well as within the Program. Her work is committed to improving health of every
individual, including those who are disadvantaged. She is interested in providing
practical guidance for health promotion programs and public policy addressing
multiple pathways by which biological, behavioral and contextual contributors
affect individual and population health. She is a nominated inductee of Delta
Omega, the honorary society in public health and a member of the American Society
for Nutrition and American Public Health Association.
E-mail her: soowonk@stanford.edu |
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