PCH: Faculty

Rebecca R. Kang, PhD Associate Professor Psychosocial & Community Health Box 357263 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7263 Email Address: becca@u.washington.edu

Dr. Rebecca Kang is an associate professor in Psychosocial & Community Health with an earned doctorate in the Philosophy of Nursing Sciences. She has considerable expertise in creating early interventions based on the conceptualization of parent-child interventions programs and protocols. She has continued her interest in the study of parent-child interaction in work with Hawaiian and Korean mothers and infants. Currently, Dr. Kang is a core faculty member of the Health Sciences Interdisciplinary Clinical Education grant, the Advanced practice Home Care Nursing Program grant, and the Nursing Leadership enhancement for Culturally Competent Care: Children and Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs, Families and Communities grant.

Dr. Kang also has extensive experience in community health; she taught the UW course "Partnerships for Community Health' and coordinated field placement of nearly 200 students in the Rainier Valley, the site of the EHS office, and has facilitated the ACHN curricular group for the past two years.

Current Projects

• Advanced Practice Community Health Systems Nursing  (Principal Investigator)