We are An Interdisciplinary Team ( more coming soon)
Ye jin Kang; Founder, Executive Director
Ye jin Kang is a Pediatrics resident at UT Southwestern and is currently enrolled at Harvard Medical School. She read for a MSc in Medical Anthropology and MPP at the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship. She graduated from Rice University with a BS in Biology and BA in Policy Studies (Global Health). She is an aspiring physician policymaker, and her aim is to help improve North Korea’s healthcare system. Ye jin taught a course at Rice called ‘Demystifying DPRK’ under the academic supervision of former Rice President Malcolm Gillis. From mid-2014 to early-2015, she served as Program Director in the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology Division of Medical Sciences. Having felt a calling to study TB as it is prevalent in the DPRK, much of her health work has been on studying TB holistically. She has done basic science, anthropology, and policy research on TB, and has done community volunteer work on TB in India.
Stina Jinsun Bae; Assistant Director
Stina (Jinsun) Bae is a PhD candidate at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, specializing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in global supply chains. Motivated by her desire to understand how foreign investment can support equitable economic and social development in DPRK in the future, she decided to focus on Myanmar in her doctoral research. Similar to DPRK, Myanmar is a country that has experienced economic sanctions and strong military influence in politics. Her doctoral thesis examines contesting notions of CSR in Myanmar’s garment industry during the period of 2011 – 2015. Prior to her PhD, as a research associate at Lund University, Sweden, she conducted research on Sweden-DPRK relations. She also worked for a human rights NGO in South Korea, conducting trainings on rights-based approach to development for NGO professionals. She has a master’s degree in Asian Studies from Lund University, Sweden, and bachelor in Culture and Politics from Georgetown University, USA.
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Nathanael Lee ; Health Program Associate
Nathanael ( Nate) Lee is an aspiring physician-scientist who is currently enrolled in the combined MD/PhD dual-degree program, pursuing medical training at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and doctorate training at the National Institutes of Health through the Graduate Partnership Program. Nate graduated from Rice University with BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, BA in Cognitive Sciences, and BA in Psychology. Throughout his undergraduate and graduate training periods, Nate developed a deep interest in medical and healthcare-associated outreach programs. He currently serves as the Outreach Committee Chair of Society for Neuroscience DC Metro Area Chapter. Nate is also an avid photographer and a dedicated musician, and constantly seeks out opportunities to apply these passions in outreach settings.
Matthew Bates, Economics Program Director
Matthew is Senior Commercial Analyst at Aminex PLC, an energy company that was once interested in the DPRK. He is a chartered certified accountant, a chartered secretary and Level 3 candidate in the CFA program and holds an MA Korean Studies and BA Korean and Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he wrote his masters thesis on the strategy underlying North Korea’s 2002 Economic Management Measures. He speaks Korean and Mandarin and has written and translated several articles on Sino-North Korean economic relations to the website Sino-NK. Matthew has been closely involved in the economics panels at Engage Korea’s conferences and designed, co-organizes and presents Engage Korea’s online course ‘Considering Economic Engagement.’
Eric Joo - Health Program Associate; Director Korean Translation Services
Eric (Yechaan) is 1st-year MPH student concentrating in environmental health sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before joining the Korean Health Initiative (KHI)/Engage Korea, he worked in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the Barrett Rollins Lab for two years as a lab technician, researching Langerhans cell histiocytosis and lymphomas. He graduated from Boston College with a BS in Chemistry and wrote a senior thesis on the topic of chemically synthesizing a novel type of antibiotic under the supervision of Professor Jianmin Gao. With aspirations of entering medical school in the near future, Eric plans on becoming a physician-scientist-public-health-professional capable of treating and promoting the health of individuals and populations while preserving the environment and use medicine as a tool to forge international relations with the DPRK. During his free time, Eric loves to go fishing, play basketball and the drums, and watch football.
Sabine Burghart; Educational Program Associate
Sabine Burghart, PhD, is university lecturer and academic director of the Master’s program in East Asian Studies at the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku in Finland. She has spent more than five years of her professional career in Korea; between 2004 and 2012 she managed various capacity building projects and facilitated three EU-DPRK economic workshops in North Korea. Since 2013 she has been contributing to Engage Korea activities and provided support for organizing conferences and other educational initiatives. She has regularly contributed articles to the yearbook Korea: Politics, Economy and Society edited by R. Frank, J. E. Hoare, P. Köllner and S. Pares (Leiden: Brill).
Sharon Kim - Health Program Associate
Sharon Kim, a recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, studied neuroscience and healthcare management. She has been working with Dr. Kee Park since the summer of 2015 and had the opportunity to shadow doctors of the Korean American Medical Association at Pyongyang, North Korea. During her time in North Korea, she shared some of her research on pediatric cancer and neurobiology related projects at the Annual Pyongyang Medical Conference of 2016 and 2017. She has been extensively involved in various science and medical diplomacy projects as executive board member of the Penn Science Diplomacy Group. Sharon hopes to contribute in the field of health policy, science diplomacy, and medicine, while committing particularly to DPRK related global health projects.
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