School of Nursing

As Filipino nurses remain an elusive subject of history, their present-day hypervisibility casts a ghostly shadow­ haunting the legacy of United States imperialism.

Today the United States is faced with questions about immigration policies and the conflict of those policies with the moral imperative to care for people seeking refuge from war torn areas of the world.

My dissertation investigates associations between geographic distribution (density and proximity) of licensed tobacco retailers (LTRs) and adolescent smoking in Seoul, South Korea.