Kyungwon Paek

Education Background

- Visiting scholar, School of nursing University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, US, Jan. 2018 – Feb. 2019

- International Ph.D. Course, “Safety promotion research” and “Global burden of injury” Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (Sep. 2000)

- Ph.D : Department of preventive medicine at Ajou university, Suwon Korea 2004

- Master’s degree of Public Health: Ewha women’s University, Seoul Korea 1999

- Bachelor of Science in Public health: Ewha women’s University, Seoul Korea 1997.

Safe community experiences

- Associate Professor, Elderly Welfare, Baekseok University, 2006 to Present : Teaching, “Elderly Health”, “Research Method”, “community health”, “community injury epidemiology”

- Strategic knowledge about efficient data collection methods acquired through 13-year (2010 to present) experience as a chief of research project, “strategies for establishing national chronic disease and injury surveillance system for Safe Community,” and “Strategies for Safe Community Movement” funded by government and city

- Member of Scientific committee in International and Asian regional safe community conferences in Toshima, Japan (2012), Busan, Korea (2014), Sejong, Korea (2022)

Training as certifier

- International Safe Community Certifiers Educational Course (2020)

- Certifier and Co-certifier participation more than 20 communities in Asia region – Korea, Japan