ethnic aging
Karen Kobayashi has received a 2002 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research post-doctoral fellowship, which is allowing her to pursue her gerontology research at SFU's Gerontology Research Centre.
Kobayashi is examining how ethnicity affects aging and health. Her study of factors promoting and impeding healthy aging among Chinese and South Asian adults is particularly relevant in B.C., where Asians are the fastest growing segment of the population. Kobayashi has noted that "recent immigrant middle-aged women within this segment of Canada's population are significantly less likely to get pap smears and mammograms done to detect diseases than their Canadian-born counterparts."
An SFU grad, Kobayashi completed her doctoral studies at the university in 1999.
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