Van Ta Park

Van Ta Park

Professor of Community Health Systems | UCSF

Van Ta Park, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a Professor at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), School of Nursing, Department of Community Health Systems, and teaches in the Advanced Public Health Nursing program. Her research areas include dementia caregiving, mental health, and health care access. Over the years as a community-based researcher, she has built research collaboration relationships with many local, regional and national community-based organizations and leaders in the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) communities. She has a PhD in Health Policy and Management, concentration in social/behavioral sciences (Johns Hopkins University). She also has an MPH (Health Promotion), BS (Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies), and BA (Sociology) all from the University of Southern California. She also has a Certificate in Ethnogeriatrics from Stanford and did her NIDA post-doctoral fellowship at UCSF. Please see the link here for a more detailed bio.