Eunjung Kim

ARNP, PhD

Associate Professor

My research focuses on two areas. First, I have been advancing health equity through implementation science working with community partners such as Korean Community Service Center, Korean language schools, and Seattle-King County Public Health Department. This line of research has focused on developing and implementing innovative interventions that foster positive parenting and children’s developmental outcomes among minority families, with a particular emphasis on Korean immigrant families. I developed two culturally tailored parent training programs that integrate cultures, beliefs, and evidence-based parenting practices. These multicultural and multilingual programs teach effective parenting strategies to parents who live in two cultural values and face intergenerational conflicts due to differing rates of acculturation. One of these innovative interventions continues to be taught in local Korean immigrant communities in the States of Washington and Texas. My qualifications in conducting multicultural and multilingual research have led me to collaborations with local community organizations and scholars worldwide.

Second, I have expanded my research areas to implement American College of Sports Medicine’s Exercise is Medicine® (EIM) Initiative in community oncology clinics. In these multilevel studies, I exam organizational level outcomes, such as implementation outcomes and organizational contexts, as well as individual level outcomes, such as exercise habits and health-related quality of life among cancer survivors. I utilize community-based participatory research (CBPR), mixed methods, and group randomized controlled experimental studies.