Chulwoo "Charles" Park

Assistant Professor, San José State University

Dr. Chulwoo “Charles” Park is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Public Health and Recreation at San José State University. He is a global and community health researcher/practitioner with extensive fieldwork experience in infectious disease prevention and control, health equity, anti-racism, immigrant and minority health, and health promotion. His work also encompasses big health data science, including secondary data analysis using the data from the US Census Bureau, USAID, and NIH. He is the Principal Investigator for the research project titled “Language Identity and Mental Health Disparities among Multilingual 1.5 Generation Asian/Asian American Immigrant Young Adults: A Mixed Methods Study,” funded by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences at NIH. He has developed and applied various mixed-methods approaches, including explanatory, exploratory, and three-step sequential mixed-methods designs. For literature reviews, he has used narrative reviews, systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, and scoping reviews. He teaches quantitative and qualitative methods/analysis, epidemiology, biostatistics, introduction to public health, and global health courses, as well as training both graduate and undergraduate students.

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