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Creating a More Equitable Healthcare System with Kumhee Ro
Saturday, February 17, 2024
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Online: Free Zoom Registration Required
Kumhee Ro, DNP, APRN, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing, at Seattle University College of Nursing. Ro is very accomplished and wears many hats in both nursing and advocacy. She will share the lived experiences of some of our marginalized communities and provide an in-depth look at how we can be a part of the legislative and policy conversations to advance health equity through advocacy.
Ro is both an immigrant and a first-generation college graduate. Over her career as a healthcare practitioner providing direct patient care in a number of public health settings, she has been motivated by the underserved communities she has served to build coalitions, implement innovative models and partnerships, and design pathways to positively impact vulnerable populations’ health outcomes. She has worked with state and government agencies, nonprofit health systems, and community stakeholders to identify the most critical needs and improve programs and wrap-around services.
She is dedicated to improving and diversifying the nursing profession. Through her scholarship, she has championed a culture of inclusivity and belonging in academia, supporting state and national initiatives aimed at advancing underrepresented students and faculty to ensure a diversified health workforce.
As an educator and thought leader with federal and state policy experience, she will share her experiences in education, leadership and practice and how advocacy can impact health policies.
As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine, she researched and drafted provisions to improve the healthcare workforce shortages nationwide. She informs legislative and regulatory policy to ensure that a well-trained health workforce supply can meet the demands across the country to improve access among vulnerable populations.
Ro currently serves on the advisory committee to the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality, guiding primary care research development for the US Department of Health and Human Services.
As a co-founder of Jesuit Nurse Faculty Network, she strategically promotes collaboration among schools of nursing faculty, nationally, to advance health equity through improving patient-clinician concordance.
Ro earned her BSN, MSN, a post-master’s certificate to become a Family Nurse practitioner, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Washington School of Nursing.