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Soyeon Ahn is a full-time Professor in the Department of Education and Psychological Studies at the University of Miami's School of Education and Human Development. Her academic profile demonstrates active research leadership in health communication, educational assessment, and psychometrics, with recent publications spanning 2024-2025. Contact details include email s.ahn@miami.edu, phone (305)284-2929, and ORCiD 0000-0003-2581-306X.
Research interests focus on Health Belief Model applications in social media health campaigns, fairness evaluation of high-stakes educational exams, and eHealth interventions for obesity management. She investigates how content creator characteristics (e.g., race, occupation) affect user engagement with health messages, examines psychometric validation of assessment tools via Rasch modeling, and explores generative AI's pedagogical impact. Her work integrates intersectionality frameworks to address health disparities in clinical settings.
Recent publications reveal strong interdisciplinary trends connecting public health, education, and technology. Key themes include methodological rigor in meta-analyses of occupational cancer studies, social media's role in vaccine behavior change, and AI literacy training for educators. Her findings consistently emphasize practical implications: optimizing health messaging through HBM constructs, addressing test bias in educational equity, and leveraging technology for behavior intervention. The 2024-2025 output shows increasing focus on real-world application of measurement theory.
