Asia Bishop, MSW, PhD
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Asia recently received her doctorate in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. Her research focuses broadly on marginalized youth and the inequities they experience. Her current research examines health inequities, including how marginalized identities and environmental and systemic factors inform health decision-making and the type and accessibility of services available to youth. She takes an integrated, intersectional approach with the aim of ensuring systems and service approaches are relevant and responsive to youth’s lived experiences. Asia has over 10 years of experience collaborating on multidisciplinary teams to develop and evaluate research-based tools and programs to improve youth systems and outcomes, including the juvenile legal system. Her dissertation was a multi-method study examining sexual, physical, and mental health experiences among gang-involved youth, with a focus on the social identity and ecological factors that shape health risks.