Health Services Researcher & Psychiatric NP. She/her. Assistant Professor at @UCLANursing @UCLAFSPH. Alum of @UMichNursing @UCLAFSPH @NCSP_UCLA @ForbesUnder30
Apr 10, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
I'm often asked “Why are so many nurses declining the COVID vaccine?"— & I'm usually unsure how to respond. I’m torn between being embarrassed/upset by low vaccine uptake among nurses or sympathetic to the reasons why nurses don't automatically trust hospitals & biomedicine. 🧵⬇️
I’m involved in a study of COVID-19 vaccine decision-making & perceptions among healthcare workers and have gotten to talk to nurses first-hand who both accepted and declined the vaccine. Some things I've learned:
Aug 11, 2020 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
It's been ~1 year since I started as an assistant professor. Over the summer, I've spoken with a number of other first-year APs in #nursing/#medicine/#publichealth, & it's made me reflect on the good & bad of year 1. 🧵below...
Main topic: How can we decolonize beauty and de-center whiteness, given the racist origins of beauty standards?
There were 3 segments:
1. Geopolitics of beauty & Korean double eyelid surgery 2. Culture, trauma, & eating disorders in the Latinx community 3. Decolonizing beauty & de-centering whiteness
Segment 1 was especially interesting to me as a mixed Korean person. Some highlights:
