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Dr. Kim-Mozeleski is a social and behavioral scientist devoted to research on advancing health equity through an array of social epidemiological and community-based research methods, focusing on tobacco control, food access, and treatment/services utilization. She has been a pioneer in the study of the intersection between tobacco use and food insecurity, initially established through a K01 award from NIH. She is currently Contact Principal Investigator of a NIH R01 that leverages community-based food pantry settings for tobacco cessation treatment, aiming to ultimately improve access to population-level tobacco control interventions in the community in scalable and sustainable ways. Dr. Kim-Mozeleski is nationally recognized for her expertise in tobacco-related health disparities. She served as a Contributing Author to the 2024 U.S. Surgeon General's Report, Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities. She also serves as Co-Chair for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Health Equity Network (2025-2028). Dr. Kim-Mozeleski holds a PhD in social and health psychology, with NIH-funded postdoctoral training in tobacco control and substance use treatment. Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in 2020, she held a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences from 2017-2019. She is a bilingual and bicultural 1.5-generation Korean American immigrant who grew up in the U.S. territory of Guam.