Soohyun Nam, PhD, ANP (BC), APRN

Soohyun Nam is the Gayle King Lee Professor at the Yale School of Nursing and a faculty affiliate of the Yale Institute for Global Health. An internationally recognized expert in cardiometabolic health, health disparities, and community-engaged research, Dr. Nam brings over 25 years of clinical experience as a nurse practitioner to her research and mentorship.

Her work focuses on addressing health disparities through structural and multilevel determinants of health. She has led multiple federally funded studies supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Her research incorporates lifestyle, biobehavioral, sociocultural, and psychosocial factors to improve health outcomes among marginalized populations, including racially and ethnically minoritized communities, immigrants, and underserved women.

Dr. Nam is a prolific scholar with publications in high-impact journals and features in prominent outlets such as Science. She is also a dedicated mentor, fostering the development of emerging nurse scientists and public health researchers through interdisciplinary collaboration.

She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Seoul National University, and both her master’s degree (Adult Nurse Practitioner) and PhD in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Interdisciplinary Training in Health Disparities Research at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Nam is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American Heart Association.