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Yuri Jang

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Yuri Jang
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Rank:  Tenure Track Faculty

Yuri Jang

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Biography

Yuri Jang is a professor and the USC Golden Age Association/Frances Wu Chair in Chinese Elderly at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, and a senior scientist at the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging. She is also a joint appointee at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and Department of Social Welfare at Ewha Womans University in South Korea. Before she joined USC in 2018, she was affiliated with the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin (2012−2018) and Department of Aging and Mental Health Disparities and School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida (2003−2012). She received her doctoral degree in Aging Studies at the University of South Florida in 2001 and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of South Florida Institute on Aging and at the University of Georgia Gerontology Center.
Professor Jang’s areas of interest include positive adaptation in aging, health disparities, and minority health and service utilization. She has completed a project “Aging, Acculturation, and Health” funded by the National Institute on Aging (R03AG 26332). Her projects on mental health literacy among minority older adults were funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH081094) and the Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer’s Center and Research Institute. She has also conducted a project on telecounseling for linguistically isolated older adults with funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R03HS020636). Sponsored by the City of Austin, she has completed the Asian American Quality of Life (AAQoL) project – a city-wide needs assessment in Asian American communities. Her 5-year multi-site project, “Limited English Proficiency, Health, and Healthcare among Older Immigrants,” awarded an R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging (R01AG47106). Building upon the survey-based work, she is currently working on community-based interventions for immigrants with limited English proficiency, including oral health education (R21DE029579) and cultural adaptation of an evidence-based program for dementia caregivers (R21AG071790).
She serves as an associate editor for Ethnicity and Health and an editorial board member for Clinical Gerontologist and Women, Gender, and Families of Color. She has received numerous honors and awards including minority fellowships from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the American Psychological Association (APA), Emerging Professional Award from the APA Division 45, Career Achievement Award from the Korean American Social Work Educator Association, Recognizing Asians Instilling Strength and Excellence (RAISE) Award, and the GSA Minority Mentor Award. She also served as an elected Secretary of the GSA (2017−2020).
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Education

University of South Florida

PhD 2001

University of Arizona

MA 1998

Duksung Women's University, Seoul, Korea

BA 1996