Dr. Rebecca Kang is an associate professor in Psychosocial & Community Health with an earned doctorate in the Philosophy of Nursing Sciences. She has considerable expertise in creating early interventions based on the conceptualization of parent-child interventions programs and protocols. She has continued her interest in the study of parent-child interaction in work with Hawaiian and Korean mothers and infants. Currently, Dr. Kang is a core faculty member of the Health Sciences Interdisciplinary Clinical Education grant, the Advanced practice Home Care Nursing Program grant, and the Nursing Leadership enhancement for Culturally Competent Care: Children and Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs, Families and Communities grant.

Dr. Kang also has extensive experience in community health; she taught the UW course "Partnerships for Community Health' and coordinated field placement of nearly 200 students in the raininer Valley, the site of the EHS office. And has facilitated the ACHN curricular group for the past two years.

Dr. Kang is the 2004 recipient of the UW School of Nursing Distinguished Alumni Award.

Publications
Kang, R., Barnard, K., Hammond, M., & Oshio, S. (1995). Preterm infant follow-up project: A multi-site field experiment of hospital and home intervention programs for mothers and preterm infants. Public Health Nursing, 12(3), 171-89.

Kang, R., Barnard, K., & Oshio, S. (1995). Description of the clinical practice of advanced practice nurses in family-centered early intervention. Public Health Nursing, 11(6), 376-84.

Barnard, K. E., Hammond, M. A., Sumner, G. A., Kang, R., Johnson-Crowley, N., Snyder, C., Spietz, A., Blackburn, S., Brandt, P. & Magyary, D. (1987). Helping parents with preterm infants: field test of a protocol. Early Child Development and Care, 27, 255-290.

Kang, R., Snyder, C., Spietz, A., Johnson-Crowley, N., & Lindner, K. (1987). Life without burnout: Using consultation in community health nursing. MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. September/October, 12, 5, 301-306.