Associate Professor
College of Nursing, Seoul National University, KR
Dr. JaHyun Kang is an Associate Professor at Seoul National University, College of Nursing. Before that, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing. She earned her Ph.D. in Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). She holds a Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) from the Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Korea University. Her areas of expertise are hospital epidemiology and infection control. She has had overall hospital infection control experience, including the development of a hospital infection control program, as the sole full-time infection control nurse, at two university-affiliated hospitals: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (2003-2007) and Korea University Anam Hospital (2000-2003). She received the 2015-2016 APIC Heroes Implementation Research Scholar Award for her simulation study on personal protective equipment. She was a 2017 SHEA International Ambassador and a 2019-2020 Takemi Fellow in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
