Courses taught

• PH646 Grant Writing 
• PH641 Advanced Topics in Health Policy
• PH792U Effective Writing in Public Health

Dr. Yuka Polovina works on public health workforce development activities and serves as a Workforce Liaison between the University of Hawaii and Hawai‘i State Department of Health. She is an interdisciplinary educator with pedagogical interests in social equity and writing. Her research interests include understanding people’s lived experiences with disease, health, and sports participation, which are highly contextualized. Specifically, Dr. Polovina is engaged in how a humanities lens can illuminate the socio-historical nuances of those experiences. Her scholarly fields are in body politics, contemporary life narratives (an intersectional approach), gender and American Studies.