Jong Cheol Shin, PhD, MS

Dr. Jong Cheol Shin is an Assistant Professor in the College of Health at Lehigh University. An interdisciplinary researcher with training in epidemiology, health geography, kinesiology, and health technologies, he studies how social and built environments shape human behavior and population health, with emphasis on sleep and physical activity.

Recent work includes: 

Southside Bethlehem Walkability Index and Maping with route suggestions

Forest Walking (route-suggestion prototype, 360° virtual environments, intervention design);

Sleep and physical activity interventions using wearable data and mobile sensing (environment-behavior links, UX/UI);

Nature–health collaborations. 

He leverages mHealth, wearables, and AR/VR, and is developing AI-enabled analytics to translate evidence into practical, equity-focused interventions.

Education

Brown University School of Public Health, Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. Community Health

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.S. Applied statistics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.S. Kinesiology

Kyung Hee University, B.S. Sports Medicine

Kyung Hee University, B.S. Physics

Areas of Research and Publications

Health technology, Wearable device, Mobile health, Virtual Reality; Sleep, Physical Activity, Obesity; Health Geography, GIS, Environmental exposure, Green & Blue space; Social/environmental epidemiology, Spatial accessibility, Health Inequality, Educational/Geospatial Technology

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