Jungwon Min, PhD, MS
Research Professor of Epidemiology;
Director of BECCA Lab, Penn School of Nursing
Jungwon Min, PhD, MS, is a Research Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the BECCA Lab at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the etiology of population health across the life course, with particular attention to how biological, social, and structural factors shape child and adolescent health outcomes.
Dr. Min applies a life course epidemiologic perspective and data-driven, systems-science approaches to examine emerging exposures—including neighborhood conditions, violence, and policy-relevant social environments—and their interactions with individual and familial vulnerability. Her work emphasizes understanding mechanisms that generate and sustain health disparities, particularly among youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged and racially and ethnically minoritized communities.
A central focus of her recent research is understanding how social and structural determinants contribute to persistent health disparities among youth. Her work demonstrates that children from racial and ethnic minoritized groups and those living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods experienced disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across mental health, obesity, and access to preventive services such as STI screening. Collectively, her findings highlight the importance of integrating neighborhood-level data into health services research, clinical screening, and policy to address inequities in population health.
Education
- Post-Doc, Johns Hopkins University, 2012
- PhD, Ewha Womans University, 2010
- MS, Ewha Womans University, 2007
- BS, AJOU University, 2004
Contact
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
418 Curie Boulevard, Office 488L
Philadelphia, PA 19104
minj1@upenn.edu