Kari-Lyn Sakuma, Ph.D., MPH

Kari-Lyn Sakuma, Ph.D., MPH

Associate Professor
karilyn.sakuma@oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-3835

Waldo Hall

Waldo Hall 412

2250 SW Jefferson Way

2250 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
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PDF icon Kari-Lyn Sakuma, Ph.D., MPH (June 2020)

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Biography

PhD in Preventive Medicine with an emphasis in health behavior
MPH in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Southern California

Prior to coming to Oregon State, she was a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Community and Global Health at Claremont Graduate University; she also was a lecturer at the Keck School of Medicine–Preventive Medicine at USC. Previous positions included Research Associate at the Prevention Research Center at Pennsylvania State University.

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A Public Health Crisis: Factors That Impact Your Health Outcomes

Kari-Lyn Sakuma, Ph.D., MPH

There are several factors that affect our ability to live a healthy life. But have you considered your ZIP code as a factor for life expectancy and an indicator of systemic health inequities? Kari-Lyn Sakuma helps us discover these “social determinants of health,” how your ZIP code may be a more important predictor of your health than your genetic code and how we can work together to dismantle systemic health disparity.

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Publications

2015

Journal Article

P. Fagan, Pohkrel, P., Herzog, T., Pagano, I., Vallone, D., Trinidad, D. R., Sakuma, K. - L., Sterling, K., Fryer, C. S., and Moolchan, E., “Comparisons of three nicotine dependence scales in a multiethnic sample of young adult menthol and non-menthol smokers.”, Drug and alcohol dependence, vol. 149, pp. 203-11, 2015.
K. - L. Sakuma, Felicitas, J., Fagan, P., Gruder, C. L., Blanco, L., Cappelli, C., and Trinidad, D. R., “Smoking Trends and Disparities Among Black and Non-Hispanic Whites in California.”, Nicotine Tob Res, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1491-8, 2015.
P. Fagan, Moolchan, E. T., Pohkrel, P., Herzog, T., Cassel, K. D., Pagano, I., Franke, A. A., Kaholokula, J. Keawe'aimo, Sy, A., Alexander, L. A., Trinidad, D. R., Sakuma, K. - L., C. Johnson, A., Antonio, A., Jorgensen, D., Lynch, T., Kawamoto, C., and Clanton, M. S., “Biomarkers of Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Racial/Ethnic Groups at High Risk for Lung Cancer.”, American journal of public health, pp. e1-e9, 2015.
D. R. Trinidad, Xie, B., Fagan, P., Pulvers, K., Romero, D. R., Blanco, L., and Sakuma, K. - L., “Disparities in the Population Distribution of African American and Non-Hispanic White Smokers Along the Quitting Continuum.”, Health Educ Behav, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 742-51, 2015.
Y. Du, Palmer, P. H., Sakuma, K. - L., Blake, J., and C Johnson, A., “The Association between Family Structure and Adolescent Smoking among Multicultural Students in Hawaii.”, Prev Med Rep, vol. 2, pp. 206-212, 2015.

2014

Journal Article

L. Blanco, Nydegger, L. A., Sakuma, K. - L., Tong, E. K., White, M. M., and Trinidad, D. R., “Increases in light and intermittent smoking among Asian Americans and non-Hispanic Whites.”, Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 904-8, 2014.

2013

Journal Article

M. E. Feinberg, Solmeyer, A. R., Hostetler, M. L., Sakuma, K. - L., Jones, D., and McHale, S. M., “Siblings are special: initial test of a new approach for preventing youth behavior problems.”, J Adolesc Health, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 166-73, 2013.
M. E. Feinberg, Sakuma, K. - L., Hostetler, M., and McHale, S. M., “Enhancing sibling relationships to prevent adolescent problem behaviors: theory, design and feasibility of Siblings Are Special.”, Evaluation and program planning, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 97-106, 2013.

2012

Journal Article

K. - L. Sakuma, Riggs, N. R., and Pentz, M. Ann, “Translating evidence based violence and drug use prevention to obesity prevention: development and construction of the pathways program.”, Health education research, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 343-58, 2012.
J. Okamoto, Sakuma, K. - L., Yan, H., Qiu, P., Palmer, P. H., and C. Johnson, A., “A qualitative exploration of youth in the "new" China: perspectives on tobacco use from adolescents in southwest China.”, Asia-Pacific journal of public health / Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 296-307, 2012.

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