DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES
PUBLIC HEALTH SEMINAR
Presented by: Yoo Min Park, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, Sustainability, Community and Urban Studies, UConn Storrs
Title: ”Participatory Mobile Air Monitoring to Promote Health-Protective Behaviors in Latino/Hispanic Communities”
TIME: Noon to 1 this afternoon
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Bio:
Dr. Yoo Min Park is an assistant professor of geography in the Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research explores interdisciplinary questions of environmental health and health disparities using geographic information systems (GIS) and community-engaged approaches, with a particular emphasis on how dynamic human mobility across space and time shapes PM2.5 exposure. She earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. Her doctoral dissertation was recognized with the Jacques May Prize from the American Association of Geographers (AAG) as the best dissertation addressing themes in health/medical geography. Her work has been supported by several external funding sources, including NSF, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of NIH, and AAG. Prior to joining UConn, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at East Carolina University.
For more information, contact: Lisa Cook at lcook@uchc.edu