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Erika-Ann Kim (she/her) is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Michigan and a trainee of the Population Studies Center. Her research interests include social determinants of health, chronic disease epidemiology, social epidemiology, Bayesian inference, and mixed-methods approaches. She investigates how chronic health outcomes are shaped by mechanisms of social and economic inequality experienced throughout the lifecourse.

Prior to coming to Michigan, she received her MPH from Yale University, where she investigated how non-communicable disease morbidity is affected by climate change, as well as how climate change policy approaches and prioritization of climate policies differ between state structures.

Erika-Ann was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi and holds an undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.