Kim Shoaf
Kim Shoaf is the associate director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters where she has responsibility for the Center’s scientific research and training activities. She serves as principal investigator and co-principal investigator on various scientific research projects in the area of disaster preparedness including the CDC-funded Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center. Shoaf is also an associate professor in residence in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health and directs the Southwest Regional Public Health Training Center.
Shoaf received her bachelor’s in Community Health Education at the University of Utah and her Master of Public Health in Population and Family Health and her Doctor of Public Health in Community Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her expertise is in the combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies for studying disasters. Her research in emergency public health includes the study of the health impacts of various hazards with an emphasis on earthquakes; casualty estimation modeling for earthquakes and other natural and human-induced hazards; the study of public health workforce issues relative to the field of emergency public health; as well as the study of factors related to the resilience of health systems.
Currently, she is an ad hoc reviewer for several publications including Earthquake Spectra, Environmental Hazards, and Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. She has published numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and professional publications, as well as a number of book chapters in the areas of disasters and emergency public health.
