Sun-Young Kim

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Sun-Young Kim

Affiliate Professor

Email: puha0@u.washington.edu

Expertise: Clean Air, Sustainable Communities, Chemical hazards, Environmental Health, Pollution

PhD

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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)

Affiliations

PhD

Affiliate Assistant Professor

Sun-Young Kim is a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute of Health and Environment, at the Seoul National University.
She earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Public Health Science at the Seoul National University School of Public Health in Seoul, Korea. Dr. Kim’s research focuses on the influence of exposure prediction models on health effects estimation
and health effects analysis of air pollution.

Research Interests

Air pollution epidemiology and statistics

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

Projects

Association between Predicted Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Health. Fostering Next-generation Research Program (Presidential Post-doc Fellowship), Korea Research Foundation. $733,500

In the news

Democratizing data: New air pollution database developed by UW researchers

March 6, 2020 | UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Featured: Lianne Sheppard, Sun-Young Kim | View

Education

PhD (Seoul National University (Korea))

More Information

http://www.nature.com/jes/journal/v23/n5/full/jes201328a.html http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1104721/

Teaching Interests

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Contact information

puha0@u.washington.edu

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