Karen Kwok

Fellow

Karen Kwok, MSN, FNP-BC, MPH, is an advocate, educator, and collaborator in public health and family nursing.

With over 20 years committed to patient health advocacy, she serves as an appointed DC Commissioner for Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs and a Nurse Practitioner in her local community and in her FDA/NIH role in Digital Health. The American Nurses Credentialing Center has identified Ms. Kwok as a Family Nurse Practitioner content expert with her roles as Item Writer, Standard Setting, and Content Expert Panelist for the national certification exam.

Her areas of scholarship include improving access to primary health care and community-based partnership development with recognition from Robert Wood Johnson, Bill and Melinda Gates Institute, California Governor Gray Davis, President Obama, and Fulbright Specialist for her service. Her broader vision of public health programs derived from providing clinical services for communities of color, developing the public health leadership pipeline with diverse communities, and evaluating social welfare projects in Latin America, Central and Southeast Asia, and Africa.

Ms. Kwok looks forward to today's dialogue on policymaking for racial equity, leveraging pluralism in shared leadership, and transforming health equity for community resilience.