Professor
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Dr. Kathryn L. Braun is Professor of Public Health and Social Work at the University of Hawai‘i, where she teaches courses on systematic review, proposal writing, and qualitative and mixed methods. Within the UH Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, she holds the Barbara Cox Anthony Endowed Chair on Aging and is Principal Investigator of Hā Kūpuna National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders. She also works with the UH School of Medicine as Lead of the Investigator Development Core for Ola HAWAII, a federally funded Research Center in Minority Institutions, and the Lead of the Professional Development Core of PIKO, a federally funded IDeA Center. For both projects, her role is to develop indigenous and minority researchers to secure grant funding for research to help reduce health disparities in Hawai‘i. She has won university awards for excellence in teaching and mentoring, and has been a mentor for the National Mentoring Research Network (NRMN) since 2016. She is a fellow with GSA and AGHE and is current President of the Active Aging Consortium Asia-Pacific. She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer (the Philippines), and a former Fulbright Scholar (South Korea). She loves to travel and has been to about 120 countries.
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Cultivating Resilience Across Diverse Aging Communities
Saturday, November 16, 2024
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2 - Working With Native Hawaiians to Reclaim Traditional Practices
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