PhD student | Graduate Project Assistant
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
I am a Ph.D. student in the Health Services Research in Pharmacy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), minoring in health policy evaluation. Through my undergraduate studies in Economics, I gained the awareness that there is no perfect, clear-cut policy recommendation. Rather, it was a question of how effective a policy is based on conditions of implementation. My desire for a better understanding on what goes into policy making in health care led me to pursue a Master’s in Public Health program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This expanded my knowledge of structural and systemic perspectives to health outcomes. My passion for public health continues to grow.
Working as a research assistant in Epidemiology, Statistics, and Big data laboratory at the Institute for Health and Society at Hanyang University. I have enhanced my analytical skills in measuring health outcomes especially outbreaks of infectious disease, comparing outcomes across states using API data and infectious disease daily report data from Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. I am convinced that analytical view and skills are important to approach a problem and to support decision making in health policies and regulations on empirical grounds.
Further progressing as a Graduate Project Assistant, Institute for Research on Poverty, UW, I have specialized in analyzing financial burden and quality of medication use among older adults, utilizing enrollment and claim data and quality measures by National Quality Organizations.
I seek to bring my expertise in Economics, Public health and Health service research and use them to apply to Public Health systems. I believe that cross-disciplinary perspectives are essential to the success of future Health service and systems in impacting the health of older adults in positive ways.