Dr. Jane Chung-Do's research interests focus on enhancing youth and family wellness in rural and minority communities across the State of Hawai'i. Topics of past research projects include interpersonal youth violence, gender violence, school connectedness, suicide, and child abuse and neglect through primary prevention efforts and strength-based approaches. Dr. Chung-Do is specifically interested in promoting community-university partnerships to strengthen community-based participatory research and culturally-based programming. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Fellow, her current research focuses on promoting healthy eating habits through the development and implementation of a family-based backyard aquaponics programming called MALAMA (Mini Ahupua'a for Lifestyle And Mea'ai through Aquaponics) in rural Native Hawaiian communities. Dr. Chung-Do is also a co-founder of the Waimānalo Pono Research Hui, which is a grassroots group that aims to promote community-driven and culturally grounded research and programming.
