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HwaJung Choi is a Research Associate Professor at Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, and Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. She is a faculty affiliate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. She was a Fulbright scholar and received Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Choi is an economist and family demographer whose research focuses on family and community contextual factors and their implications for health and care use among older adults with physical and cognitive limitations. Dr. Choi also examines trends and cross-national differences in health and disability outcomes. She was recently awarded large research grants from the National Institute on Aging as PI, which support the following studies: to assess the impacts of Covid19 pandemic on care use among adults with dementia (R01AG075002); to examine the implications of residential location for disability and cognitive function outcomes (R01AG080491); to develop and evaluate new measures of family care availability (RF1AG083037).