Van Ta Park., PhD, MPH

Professor | University of California, San Francisco | Community Health Systems, School of Nursing

Dr. Van Ta Park is a Professor at UC San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Community Health Systems. She is trained in ethnogeriatrics, public health, health policy, and sociology. Dr. Park has extensive experience in community-based participatory research with Asian Americans, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, intervention development, study implementation, and program evaluation. Her primary research interest is to address issues related to racial and ethnic minority health and healthcare disparities, especially among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) populations. Her research areas include recruitment science, mental health and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) caregiving.

Dr. Park is the founder and Contact MPI for the NIA-funded Collaborative Approach for AANHPI Research & Education (CARE), a large recruitment registry of 10,000+ AANHPI adults who have expressed interest in participating in potential Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, aging, and caregiving research. She is also a founding member of the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer’s Disease (ACAD) Consortium. She has several active projects including the Asian Americans and Racism: Individual and Structural Experiences (ARISE) study which aims to establish a cohort in California to study the prevalence as well as the impact of multi-level discrimination and resilience resources on associated risk for ADRD among older Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Americans, and Koreans Invested in Making Caregivers Health Important (KIMCHI) which aims to help Korean Americans learn more about better healthcare decision making for themselves and for their families.