Assistant Professor
Center for Health Services Research, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Nursing Science Division, School of Nursing

Dr. Kim (she/her/hers) is a dedicated researcher and advocate for health equity. Her research has been on the modifiable structural drivers of health inequities, including neighborhood social and built environment factors on population health and older adults in home and community-based long term care system. Dr. Kim is utilizing various large-scale data (e.g., administrative data, EHR, surveys) and applies advanced quantitative methods to generate actionable evidence for equity-oriented policy and community-level intervention. Combining population health and health service research perspectives, her K99/R00 project, supported by the National Institute on Aging, focuses on measuring and evaluating the causes and consequences of delayed diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD). Dr. Kim is delving into how structural racism (SR), and community advocacy against SR, impacting ADRD prevention, diagnosis, and care.

Dr. Kim joined Rutgers after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Social Epidemiology at the University of California San Francisco. She earned a joint PhD degree in Social Work and Sociology at the University of Michigan and has been a pre-doctoral trainee at the Michigan Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research.