Myeong-ga Cho
Myeong-ga is a nurse scientist whose work draws on epigenetics, social epidemiology, and intervention research to examine how environmental, behavioral, and socioeconomic conditions shape biological aging and health across the life course. She works with longitudinal population-based and clinical datasets to investigate how social exposures become biologically embedded and contribute to variation in aging-related outcomes.
Dr. Cho’s long-term research goal is to identify modifiable social and biological mechanisms that promote healthy aging for all. She is particularly interested in epigenetic aging, DNA methylation, cognitive aging, and the effects of social policies and behavioral interventions on health and aging trajectories.
Her work spans population-based and clinical research, including studies of older adults and cancer survivors, with a focus on understanding how social conditions and biological processes jointly influence resilience, cognitive health, and aging.
Myeong-ga earned her PhD in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a postdoctoral research scientist at the Columbia Aging Center.