Honorary Academic Advisor (Health Promotion Initiative)

Dr. Linda Ko is a behavioral scientist with expertise in health communication strategies to promote behavior change. Her research aims to understand community’s behavior within the socio-cultural context, develop interventions for those behaviors and disseminate knowledge through community-based participatory research. Dr. Ko received a PhD degree from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, an Adjunct Associate Professor in Family Medicine, and the Co-Director of the community engagement program at the University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences (Clinical and Translational Science Award).