Jinhee Cha

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he/him
PhD Candidate
Epidemiology and Community Health
Biography

Jinhee is a PhD candidate in Social Epidemiology graduating in 2026. He is passionate about understanding how policy and neighborhood-level factors shape health disparities, particularly in pediatric oncology. His dissertation examines the effects of Medicaid expansion and ethnic enclave residence on survival outcomes among children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, using rigorous econometric methods to evaluate policy impacts on racial and ethnic disparities.