Giyeon Kim, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and Dean of Graduate School of Psychological Services at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. She is the Director of the Global Research on Aging, Culture and Equity (GRACE) lab. Prior to joining CAU, Dr. Kim was an Associate Professor in the Alabama Research Institute on Aging and the Department of Psychology at The University of Alabama, USA. Dr. Kim is a gerontologist who studies aging and mental health disparities.  Dr. Kim’s research has been funded by many research grants including her five year NIH career development award (K01) funded by the National Institute on Aging.  Dr. Kim received multiple prestigious research awards such as the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Award from Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the first place honor of the Charles Barkley Health Disparities Research Investigator Award, and the Outstanding Dissertation Award from Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Dr. Kim publishes very widely in the following three areas to understand mechanisms of mental health disparities: (a) racial/ethnic disparities in mental health care focusing on factors contributing to disparities between minorities and nonminorities (e.g., geographic factors, limited English proficiency, and perceived discrimination); (b) racial/ethnic disparities in mental health status focusing on risk factors of a wide range of psychological issues and psychiatric disorders; and (c) measurement equivalence issues looking at cultural influences on (standard) mental health screening tools.  Dr. Kim is an Executive Editor of Ethnicity & Health and an Associate Editor of Aging & Mental Health.  She is also an editorial board member of Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Journal of Aging and Health, Innovation in Aging, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Educational Gerontology, and Asian American Journal of Psychology.  Dr. Kim is a fellow of Gerontological Society of America.