Hyolim Kang

Hyolim Kang

Assistant Professor at Nagasaki University Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics

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Education

PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health (2026) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Thesis: Stakeholder engagement and mathematical modelling to inform chikungunya vaccination programmes in endemic and epidemic settings

MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing (2019) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

BA in Economics (2017) Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

Positions

Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling (Mar 2026 –) Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan

Research Fellow of Infectious Disease Modelling (Apr 2024 – Feb 2026) Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan

Researcher in College of Medicine (Oct 2022 – Mar 2024) Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Research Assistant, Policy and Economics Department (Apr 2021 – Sep 2022) International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Health Policy Researcher (Jun 2019 – Mar 2020) Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), Sejong, South Korea

Field Research Fellow (Apr 2017 – Mar 2018) Ethiopia Women’s Empowerment and Development Project, Holeta, Ejere, Ethiopia

Teaching & Capacity Building

  • Scientific and Organising Committee Member, Vaccinology Short Course and Symposium, Nagasaki University (2025)
  • Faculty, Vaccinology Course, Nagasaki University (2024–2025)
  • Faculty, Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling Course, Nagasaki University (2024)
  • Supervised MSc student project: “Vaccine Impact Modelling for Controlling Chikungunya Outbreak in Karnataka, India”, LSHTM (2024)

Professional Service

  • Member, Chikungunya Expert Working Group, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
  • Affiliate, Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium
  • Member, Vaccine Centre, LSHTM
  • Peer reviewed: The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vaccine, BMJ Global Health, eClinicalMedicine

Professional Memberships

  • Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine
  • Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium

Software & Code

R programming · GitHub: github.com/hyolimkang