New York, New York, United States
I am a social scientist with extensive public health research and health equity advocacy expertise in the intersection of elder abuse, ageism, and minority aging. The themes of my research have been on examining 1) the etiology of elder abuse to inform prevention and intervention across diverse care and cultural settings; 2) formal and informal caregiving in minoritized communities; 3) social determinants of health in late-life violence. My research has been supported by multiple regional, national, and international competitive funding mechanisms. I completed a NIA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health and M.A. degree from the University of Chicago.
• Courses taught include o Principles of Epidemiology, Fall 2017 o Social and Interpersonal Influences on Health, Spring 2018 o Stigma and Health, Fall 2018 o Qualitative Methods in Public Health, Spring 2019
I served as the Research Manager of The PINE Study with the Chinese Health, Policy and Aging Program at Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center. The PINE Study, or the Population-based Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago, is a community-engaged, population-based study of older Chinese adults in the greater Chicago area, and provides one of the first epidemiological samples of this Asian American subgroup. In this role, I examined longitudinal relationships among psychosocial trajectories, cultural factors, and family caregiving of over 3,000 Chinese American older adults. I also served as a liaison to facilitate action-oriented research collaborations between Rush University and the Chinese communities in the greater Chicago area.
Coordinated community-engaged research projects pertaining to the health of Chicago Chinese aging population; facilitated and co-lead English/Chinese bilingual focus groups; organized and co-lead community health outreach forums in Chicago Chinese community; assisted with data entry, data analysis, manuscripts preparation, grant proposals.
In partnership with Rush Institute for Healthy Aging to investigate the health/psycho-social well-being of Chinese older adults