School of Social and Political Science

Kristina Kim

Job Title

Research Fellow

Research interests

Research interests

Kristina's research interests include global health and public health policy, the social and commercial determinants of health, decolonising global health, the relationship between evidence and policy, qualitative health research and knowledge and research exchange.

Background

Kristina Kim is a research fellow for the multi-university, UKRI-funded project, 'Health Hub: Systems Approaches to Commercial Determinants of Health and Equity'. As part of team based in the University of Edinburgh's Global Health Policy Unit, she is currently developing an evidence synthesis of actions for addressing and/or mitigating the commercial determinants of health at the local authority level. 

She recently completed her PhD in Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Her thesis was entitled 'Evidence and Uncertainty around E-Cigarettes in Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation Services in Scotland' and examined how Scottish tobacco control and smoking cessation service professionals mobilised evidence and experienced uncertainty around electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes/vapes) within policy and practice.

In 2019, she earned her Master of Public Health degree with distinction from the University of Edinburgh. Her thesis focused on the marketing of e-cigarettes on Instagram by e-cigarette brands and retailers within the UK and EU political context.

Prior to studying in Edinburgh, Kristina graduated from Yale University with distinction in my major, the History of Science, Medicine and Public Health. Her senior thesis, A Call to Arms: Analyzing the Battle of Blood Banks in the Context of Donor Recruitment and Marketing, 1945-1980, explored the topic of blood banking within the context of the Cold War using a socio-cultural and media-centred lens. 

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

John, P., Kim, K., & Soto-Tamayo, L. (2023). "Using Citizen Voice to Evaluate Experiments on Politicians: A UK Survey Experiment," Journal of Experimental Political Science, 1-10. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2023.3.

Krugman D.W., Manoj M., Nassereddine G., et al. (2022). "Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates," BMJ Global Health, 7:e010698. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010698.

 

Blog Posts

Soto Pacheco, M., King, L., Kim, K., Ekpengyong, A., Kosiyaporn, H. and Andreas, M. (2021). 'Who’s got the power? A beginner’s guide to challenging the colonial legacy of global health institutions,' Think Global Health. Available at:
https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/whos-got-power-beginners-guide-challenging-colonial-legacy-global-health-institutions.

 

Conferences, Presentations and Seminars

"Evidence Mobilisation and Uncertainty in Smoking Cessation," Presenter for The Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE) Seminar Series (10 Feb 2021)

"Edinburgh Decolonising Global Health Group," Presenter for Karolinska Institutet Decolonising Global Health Conference (26 May 2020)

"Edinburgh Decolonising Global Health 2020," Co-Organiser and Host for the Edinburgh Decolonising Global Health student group's conference (24 April 2020)

 

Teaching

Population Health and Health Policy - Third-Year Undergraduate Tutor, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh (Sept 2020-Dec 2022)

Global Politics of Public Health - Third-Year Undergraduate Tutor, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh (Jan 2021-May 2022)

Introduction to Epidemiology - Master of Public Health Tutor, School of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh (2019-2020)

 

Research Positions

Research Assistant - The 'Scottish Approach' to Global Health (March 2023 - June 2024)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Conducted a critical scoping review of the academic and grey literature centred on the role of Scottish actors in global health, focusing on contemporary health interventions in Scottish international development partner countries
  • Co-wrote and delivered a symposium presentation of the review’s findings to academic researchers and relevant stakeholders in the Scottish Government, Scottish Council on Global Affairs and NHS Scotland (July 2023)
  • Performied a narrative policy review of the Scottish Government’s International Development Strategy to understand its approach to international development, global citizenship and global health partnerships 

 

Research Assistant - Research Ethics Review for Experimental Social Science Research (Jul 2021 - Sept 2022)
School of Politics and Economics, King's College London, UK

Research assistant for a King's College London team that is reviewing social science research ethics with special attention to studies employing experimental methods and focusing on political elites.

  • Designed and performed background research, literature reviews and online, qualitative stakeholder interviews to inform review into social science research ethics practices with special attention to studies employing experimental methods and focusing on political elites
  • Co-designed, performed and analysed primary data collection through the development of a survey questionnaire to assess UK citizen views on research experiments with political elites
    •  Tasks involved designing the survey, testing the survey questions and scenarios through qualitative cognitive interviews and thematic analysis of the interview and survey data
  • Co-authored a peer-reviewed publication of UK survey experiment findings for the Journal of Experimental Political Science

Works within

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