Dr. Seunghun J. Lee coordinates various projects within SAIPM-COVID 19. Currently, as the liaison of the Yerakula (Dravidian) project and the Kiribati project, he supervises the administration of the questionnaire, and supports the collection of responses based on naturalistic interviews with his research grants. He also operates the multi-lingual COVID-19 Myth Busters website that has information available in 115 languages as of January 2021.
The Center for Deaf Health Equity conducts rigorous research that lays the foundation for better health-related quality of life among deaf and hard of hearing people who use American Sign Language. They are a deaf-centric research center that utilizes quantitative and qualitative methodologies to gather accessibility and patient-reported outcomes from over 2,000 deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States.
They also offer innovative educational programs that draw upon multidisciplinary research, for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, at Gallaudet University.
Seunghun J. Lee, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Professor of Linguistics
International Christian University
Tokyo, Japan
Adjunct Professor, University of Venda, South Africa
Adjunct Professor, IIT Guwahati, India
Poorna Kushalnagar, Ph.D.
Special Assistant to the Provost for Research and Engagement
Professor and Director, Center for Deaf Health Equity
Lt. Dr. P Sreekumar
Associate Professor
Dept. of Dravidian & Computational Linguistics, Dravidian University
Director, Center for the Preservation of Endangered Dravidian Languages, Dravidian University
Te uri (Guettarda Speciosa)
The Kitatipithitamak Mithwayain project is shaped by 11 Indigenous partner organizations and aims to develop innovative and culturally appropriate countermeasures to COVID-19 and other pandemics to better serve Indigenous communities now and into the future.
The Goal of this project is to provide support and resources to Indigenous communities in innovative and culturally appropriate ways during COVID-19 to better serve Indigenous communities and organizations now and into the future.