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Hyun-Jun Kim, PhD, FGSA (he/him/his)

Research Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States

Hyun-Jun Kim is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, School of Social Work. His primary research interests focus on health and social inequities faced by disadvantaged older adults, including examining disparities in physical, mental, and cognitive health and quality of life, the intersectionality of sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity, and the roles of social exclusion, social isolation, and support networks as risk and protective factors. He also aims to translate findings to develop and implement interventions designed to improve the health and well-being of historically and socially marginalized populations. He has served as project director and co-Investigator of multiple landmark studies Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (NHAS) and Innovations in Dementia, Empowerment, and Action (IDEA), funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging. He has served as Multiple PI on Care Network-IDEA, pilot-testing an intervention to improve quality of life for LGBTQ older adults experiencing memory loss without a caregiver. Currently, he is also researching variation in social isolation and social and kin relations among older adults by sexuality, gender, and race and ethnicity and how they are associated with cognitive health interplaying with social exclusion, stress, and other health-promoting and adverse factors. Hyun-Jun Kim is the director of the Health, Sexuality & Gender Research Center at the School’s Goldsen Institute. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. He received his BA in social work from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea; an MSW from Arizona State University; and a PhD from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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