Dr. Soojung Jo

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Dr. Jo’s research focuses on public health nursing and nursing informatics, with a deep commitment to leveraging informatics techniques for health promotion and prevention of infectious diseases. Her work ranges from developing mobile applications for gestational diabetes mellitus patients to investigations on the psychological well-being of nurses, with a special focus on compassion fatigue and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on her experiences during the 2015 MERS outbreak in Korea, Dr. Jo became interested in understanding the influence of health information sharing and researched the effects of health behavior. Currently, her research primarily targets vaccine hesitancy among residents of Indiana to determine contributing factors and determinants of vaccine acceptance, while she also works on understanding the dynamics of public sentiment regarding vaccine hesitancy as reflected in online discussions.

Research Interests

Requirements for Purdue University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:135
Overall
Required:135
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in CS or related field Foundational concepts of computer science Data structures Computer architecture Operating systems Mathematics through differential equations Linear and matrix algebra
Application Checklist
  • Official Transcripts
  • Academic Statement of Purpose
  • Personal History Statement
  • Resume
  • Three Letters of Recommendation
  • CS Supplementary Form
Specialization Notes

GRE is not required.