Sun-Young Kim, PhD
Affiliate Professor
Email: puha0@u.washington.edu
Expertise:
Clean Air, Sustainable Communities, Chemical hazards, Environmental Health, Pollution
About
Dr. Sun-Young Kim is a Professor at the National Cancer Center Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy in South Korea. Dr. Kim has pursued her research interest in environmental risk factors and their associations with human health including cancer. Specifically, focusing on air pollution, she is working with study design development, air pollution modeling, and health effect analysis. In addition, she is interested in spatial pattern of cancer and identification of high-risk areas and related geographical risk factors. Dr. Kim earned her Ph.D. in Public Health Science with Biostatistics major at the Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health in Seoul, South Korea.
Education
- PhD, Seoul National University (Korea)
Mentorship
Not available to mentor new students.
Research
- Cancer and environmental risk factors: Investigation of the association of exposure to air pollution and green space with cancer incidence using a population-representative cohort constructed from the South Korean national health insurance database
- Indoor air pollution in susceptible population: indoor and personal air pollution monitoring and modeling and investigation of resulting health effects in patients with chronic lung diseases and healthy elderly population
- Spatial patterns and risk factors of cancer: identification of high-risk areas of cancer incidence and mortality and investigation of geographic determinants using spatial clustering and regression as well as geospatial big data