Given the terrible California budget, SDSU has a much reduced group of new faculty this year, and is especially pleased to be able to introduce 12 new faculty members to campus, including three new faculty members in the College of Health and Human Services.

College of Health and Human Services

School of Nursing
Mina Attin, RN, Ph.D. (UCLA 2005) Attin has clinical experience working with cardiac patients as a registered nurse. Additionally, she has experience in both clinical and experimental research in the field of cardiac electrophysiology. Her dissertation was focused on the role of calcium transients in determining the defibrillation’s outcome using optical mapping techniques in rabbit heart. She has received predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowship from National Institute of Nursing Research. Her areas of research interest include the mechanism of cardiac arrhythmias and improving the quality and cost effectiveness of care in patients who experience in-hospital cardiac arrest.

Graduate School of Public Health
Eunha Hoh, Ph.D. (Indiana University 2006) Hoh is an environmental scientist/chemist specializing in environmental organic chemistry and analytical chemistry. Her areas of interest include the fate and transport of anthropogenic contaminants in the environment, human exposure to the contaminants, discovery of unknown chemicals and their metabolites in the environment, and impact of changes in the global economy, industry, and climate on the input of organic chemicals into the environment and humans. She is currently working on development of novel analytical methods to analyze multi organic chemical groups (dioxins, PCBs, and PBDEs) simultaneously and investigating unknown natural/anthropogenic organic chemicals in food stuff within US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.

School of Social Work
Yawen Li, Ph.D. (University of Southern California, 2009) Li is a health social scientist specializing in health disparities and inequality in healthcare access. Her areas of interest include sociocultural and environmental determinants of health and healthseeking behaviors over the life course. Her research agenda is to understand individuals’ health in the context of their social environment and to probe into person-environment interactions. She is presently researching the effects of changes in social environment on health status over a nine-year period among older adults in China, and she is also investigating the ways that the earthquake survivors in Sichuan, China cope with the disaster in their relocated communities.

Other new faculty members by college:

• College of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of Health and Human Services
• College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
• College of Sciences