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Preventive Medicine & Public Health

Won S. Choi, PhD, MPH


Choi

 

Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine & Public Health
Executive Director, MPH Program, University of Kansas
Director, MS in Clinical Research, University of Kansas Medical Center

Providing leadership for public health within the university has been a primary role for Won, who has served as both the Director of the MPH program at KU Medical Center and the Executive Director of the program for both Kansas City and Wichita. His guidance of this program – along with the Master of Science in Clinical Research – provides an important service to the university. When he’s not managing these programs and serving on various graduate school committees, Won is actively involved in teaching epidemiology, tobacco and public health, and clinical and translational research for graduate students and clinical epidemiology for medical students. Within the School of Medicine, he
serves on Education Council, the Phase I Curriculum Committee, the Wescoe Academic Society and is the Faculty Representative for the Asian American Medical Student Association. His research interests include smoking cessation among Native Americans, smoking prevention in adolescents and college students, and reducing health disparities related to smoking.

BA Biology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MPH     Epidemiology       Boston University School of Public Health
PhD Epidemiology       University of California, San Diego San Diego State University