Jinsook Kim
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
E-mail: jkim4@niu.edu
Phone: (815) 753-1352
Curriculum Vitae: (.pdf)
Ph.D. UCLA, 2004
Public Health
Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health
M.P.H. Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Public Health
Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health
D.D.S. Seoul National University, 1989
Dentistry
College of Dentistry
August 2006 to present — Assistant Professor, School of Allied Health Professions, Northern Illinois University
Oct 2004 - Jul 2006 — Research Scholar, Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, School of Public Health, UCLA
2005 — Consultant, Pfizer Health Solutions Inc, Santa Monica, California
2004 — Co-Investigator, co-wrote a grant proposal ‘Ethnicity and School-level Effects on California Student Tobacco Use’ with WJ McCarthy and TL Hanson. Funded by California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP). Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, School of Public Health, UCLA
2003 - 2004 — Investigator, co-wrote a grant proposal ‘Eastern vs Western Strategies for Koreans to Quit’ with William J. McCarthy and Soo-young Chin. Funded by Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research & Training. Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, School of Public Health, UCLA
Areas of research specialization
Social ecology of health and health behavior
Health disparities
Adolescent health and behavior
Substance use
Inequality in access to health care
Quality of life of cancer survivors
Multilevel statistical modeling
Courses taught in the past five years
AHPH 402
Recent Publications
Kim, J and McCarthy, WJ. School-level contextual influence on smoking and drinking among Asian and Pacific Islander adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2006; 84:56-68.
Kim, J and Shin, H. Public health insurance enrollment among immigrants and nonimmigrants: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 2006; 8:303-311.
Kim, J, Ashing-Giwa, KT, Kagawa-Singer, M, Tejero, JS. Breast cancer among Asian Americans: Is acculturation related to Health-Related Quality of Life? Oncology Nursing Forum. 2006; 33(6): Online Exclusive.