Professor
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health
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. She is the Barbara Cox Anthony Endowed Chair on Aging and Principal Investigator of Hā Kūpuna National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders at the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health. 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. Dr. Braun is known for her work in community-based participatory research in cancer and gerontology, and she has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics. She has been a mentor for the National Mentoring Research Network (NRMN) since 2016, and she recently completed the Faculty Mentor Development Program at the University of New Mexico. She is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America 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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Friday, November 4, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET