Hayon Michelle Choi, Ph.D.
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Office: N26 - 326, KAIST (291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong District, Daejeon)
Hayon is an Assistant Professor at KAIST in the Graduate School of Green Growth & Sustainability. Hayon received her Ph.D. in Environmental Studies at Yale University, working with Prof. Michelle L. Bell. At Yale, Hayon's research focused on the disparity of climate change health impacts among different environmental and social settings. Hayon worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Marc Weisskopf and Prof. Stefania Papatheodorou at Harvard University, studying the association between environmental hazards and neurodevelopmental disorders of children. At KAIST, Hayon aims to expand the work mitigating the health disparities from climate change through technology and data-driven solutions.
Education/Experience
2025-present Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Green Growth & Sustainability, KAIST
2023-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
2019-2023 Ph.D. Environmental Studies, Yale University
2016-2018 M.S. Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University
2012-2016 B.S. Education & Statistics (Double-Major), Korea University
Honors and Awards
Pre-Dissertation Grants, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (2021)
Student Research Fellowship, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology, (2021)
Student Research Fellowship, Environmental Justice and Health Initiative (2020)
Poster Presentation Award, The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine (2018)
Best Paper Competition Award, The Korean Society of Epidemiology (2017)
Poster Presentation Award, The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine (2017)
Oral presentation Award, The Korean Society of Health Informatics and Statistics (2016)
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