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Emma Tsui is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Sciences at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. She is also Co-Facilitator of the CUNY SPH Faculty Mentoring Program and part of the Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs. Her work focuses on the intersections of community health, occupational health, and social sciences, with an emphasis on marginalized workers such as home care aides and institutional food workers. Dr. Tsui employs innovative qualitative methods like peer interviewing and digital storytelling to explore how public policies and organizational practices impact these workers' lives and labor, particularly among women of color.
Dr. Tsui holds a PhD in Health, Behavior & Society and an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, along with a BA in Psychology from Yale University. Her research interests include low-income work as a social determinant of health, urban policy impacts on health equity, occupational health promotion, and community-engaged research approaches. She frequently collaborates on mixed methods research and evaluation projects.
Her recent work examines mental health challenges faced by home care aides, the effects of client death on care workers' well-being, and strategies to integrate an ethos of care into public health practice. She advocates for policy changes to improve working conditions and health outcomes for careworkers, with a focus on structural reimagining of labor systems.
No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided materials. Her grants and advising activities are not detailed here, though her prolific publication record suggests active research funding. She is affiliated with the Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs, indicating institutional leadership roles. Her work often involves partnerships with community organizations and health agencies to address systemic inequities in carework.
