Emma Tsui

She conducts in-depth qualitative and ethnographic research, sometimes using innovative methods like peer interviewing, oral history, and digital storytelling, to elucidate the lived experience of marginalized workers and related lessons for public health. Most recently she has studied institutional food workers and home care aides with an interdisciplinary lens that illuminates how public and organizational policies, employers, and clients, shape the lives and labor of these worker groups who are largely women of color. Dr. Tsui’s work has also explored the implications of caring labor for public health and ways of better incorporating an ethos of care into public health practice and policy. These projects serve as a foundation for making policy recommendations, suggesting programmatic innovations, and provoking broader forms of structural reimagining. Dr. Tsui also collaborates frequently on mixed methods research and evaluation projects.