Hyeyoung Oh Nelson

Hyeyoung Oh Nelson
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Public Health • Assistant Professor
Health and Behavioral Sciences
hyeyoung.nelson@ucdenver.edu

Office location:
North Classroom 3031

Office hours:
Monday 11:00am-12:00pm 

Dr. Oh Nelson is a medical sociologist and qualitative methodologist. Her research interests include maternal health, racialized health experiences and disparities, and healthcare professions and organizations. She is the author of Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances and Legal Risk (2022). Her work has been published in various outlets including Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science and Medicine, and Sociology of Health and Illness

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California–Los Angeles, 2014
M.A., Sociology, University of California–Los Angeles, 2009
B.A., Sociology, Princeton University, 2005

Nelson, H.O. 2024. “Experiencing Birth Trauma: Individualism and Isolation in Postpartum.” Social Science and Medicine, 345:116663

Nelson, H. O. 2022. Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances and Legal Risk. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Nelson, H. O. and K. L. Spencer. 2021. "Sociological Contributions to Race and Health: Diversifying the Ontological and Methodological Agenda." Sociology of Health and Illness, Special Issue on Ethnicity.

Oh, H. 2017. 2017. "Resisting Throughput Pressures: Physicians’ and Patients’ Strategies to Manage Hospital Discharge." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 58(1), 116-130.

Oh, H. 2014. Hospital Consultations and Jurisdiction Over Patients: Consequences for the Medical Profession, Sociology of Health and Illness, 36(4), 580-595. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12087.

2001: Intro to Public Health

4099: Capstone Experience in Public Health