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Full-time Academic Staff: Teaching Staff
Professor K (Peter) Koh
高金錫 助理教授
Assistant Professor
BA, MA (Seoul National University); PhD (Michigan State University)
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Peter K. Koh joined the department in November 2018. Peter received his BA and MA degrees in Economics from Seoul National University, South Korea and his PhD degree in Geography from Michigan State University, USA. He also had a postdoctoral training in public health at The Ohio State University.
Peter’s research interests focus on using varied data including but not limited to public health surveys, census data, and spatial data to investigate the associations between health conditions/diseases and their risk factors at various levels of geographies. He is currently working on a project regarding food security and obesity with systems science approaches. He is also involved in other research projects on infant mortality, rheumatic diseases, stress, and trauma.
Prior to his PhD training in the U.S., Peter was a staff journalist at Seoul Shinmun Daily, a major newspaper based in Seoul, South Korea, covering urban issues and policies.
Research Interests
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Health/ Medical Geography
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Geographic Information System (GIS)
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Urban Economics
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System Science
Selected Publications
2019
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Koh, K., Reno, R. and Hyder, A. (2019). "Examining Disparities in Food Accessibility among Households in Columbus, Ohio: An Agent-Based Model.” Food Security 11(2): 317-331. DOI: 10.1007/s12571-019-00900-7 (IF2018=2.153).
2018
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Koh, K., Elder, T., Grady, S. C., Darden, J. and Vojnovic, I. (2018) “Explained and Unexplained Racial and Regional Inequality in Obesity Prevalence in the United States.” Ethnicity & Health 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2018.1442559 (IF2018=2.671).
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Koh, K., Grady, S. C., Darden, J. and Vojnovic, I. (2018) “Adult Obesity Prevalence at the county level in the United States, 2000-2010: Downscaling Public Health Survey Data using a Spatial Microsimulation Approach.” Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 26: 153-164. DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2017.10.001
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Koh, K., Grady, S. C., Vojnovic, I. and Darden, J. (2018) “Impacts of Federally Funded State Obesity Programs on Adult Obesity Prevalence in the United States, 1998-2010.” Public Health Reports 133(2): 169-176. DOI: 10.1177/0033354917751128 (IF2018=2.039).
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Koh, K., Reno, R. and Hyder, A. (2018) “Designing an Agent-based Model using Group Model Building: Application to Food Insecurity Patterns in a U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan City.” Journal of Urban Health 95(2): 278-289. DOI: 10.1007/s11524-018-0230-1 (IF2018=2.154).
2015
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Koh, K., Grady, S. C. and Vojnovic, I. (2015) “Using Simulated Data to Investigate the Spatial Patterns of Obesity Prevalence at the Census Tract Level in Metropolitan Detroit.” Applied Geography 62: 19-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.03.016 (IF2018=3.068).
Last Update: September 2019
Research Grants
2015
National Science Foundation GROW Fellowship (University of Vienna, Austria)
2011-2015
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Awards
2017-2018
National Science Foundation GROW Fellowship (University of Vienna, Austria)
2014-2017
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2017
UCLA Geography Department Best Graduate Student Paper, Nature-Society Category
2017
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Eurasian Specialty Group Student Paper Competition – Honorary Mention
2017
AAG Dissertation Grant
2014-2017
UCLA Charles F. Scott Fellowship
2016
AAG Asian Specialty Group Best Graduate Student Paper Award
2013
UCLA Dean’s Scholar Award
2013
UCLA Departmental Fellowship
2013
Graduate Tutors Prize for Distinction in MPhil, Fitzwilliam College
2012-2013
Gates Cambridge Fellow