Sue E Kim, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences

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Overview

Sue Kim, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at USC. As a health services researcher, she has been leading research projects that focus on health care service delivery and management, health care reform and policy, particularly with emphasis on cancer prevention and health care utilization in low-income and ethnically diverse communities. She also leads the Health Services and Policy concentration in the MPH program and teaches courses in health care delivery and quality in health care.

Education and Training

  • University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA — PhD
  • University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA — MPH

Publications

  • Mapping Ethnic Enclaves for Health Disparities Research: A Hybrid Clustering Approach. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2026 Jul 10.. View in PubMed
  • Disparities in multidimensional psychosocial stressors by sexual identity among cancer survivors from the All of Us Research Program. Cancer Causes Control. 2026 Apr 03; 37(5).. View in PubMed
  • Are guidelines guiding? A mixed methods study examining the integration of ASCO fertility discussion guidelines in practice among oncologists and adolescents and young adults at an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. J Cancer Surviv. 2025 Jun 19.. View in PubMed
  • Disparities in multidimensional psychosocial stressors by sexual minority identity among cancer survivors from the All of Us (AoU) Research Program. Res Sq. 2025 Jun 18.. View in PubMed
  • Behind closed doors: a qualitative study exploring the content of fertility discussions between oncologists and their adolescent and young adult cancer patients from the perspective of oncologists at an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Support Care Cancer. 2025 Mar 21; 33(4):308.. View in PubMed
  • Alcohol and Cannabis Use Associated with Cardiometabolic Biomarkers among “All of Us” Cancer Survivors. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Jan 09; 34(1):51-58.. View in PubMed
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities: Discrimination’s Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life-An All of Us Cancer Survivors’ Cross-sectional Study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 06; 12(3):1765-1776.. View in PubMed
  • Partners in vaccination: A community-based intervention to promote COVID-19 vaccination among low-income homebound and disabled adults. Disabil Health J. 2024 07; 17(3):101589.. View in PubMed
  • Nativity differences in socioeconomic barriers and healthcare delays among cancer survivors in the All of Us cohort. Cancer Causes Control. 2024 Feb; 35(2):203-214.. View in PubMed
  • Asian Ethnic Subgroup Disparities in Delays of Surgical Treatment for Breast Cancer. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2022 02; 6(1).. View in PubMed