Asia Bishop
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work & Criminal Justice, UW Tacoma
University of Washington
CSDE Research Areas:
- Demographic Measurements and Methods
- Environments and Populations
- Health of People and Populations
Asia Bishop (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at the University of Washington Tacoma. She is a transdisciplinary scholar whose research draws on social determinants of health, critical, and ecological frameworks to examine how institutional systems, policy environments, and social contexts shape patterned disparities across populations. To date, her work has focused on population-level inequities affecting multiply marginalized youth and adults impacted by the criminal legal system, gang-involved youth, and rural adolescents. She employs diverse methodological approaches, including quantitative analyses of population-based and administrative data, mixed-methods and qualitative inquiry, and applied program evaluation conducted in partnership with public agencies and community organizations. Her work advances population science by examining how structural conditions shape health disparities, service access, and equity, and by generating practice-relevant evidence to inform policy reform and community-centered responses. She received her PhD in Social Welfare, with a statistics concentration through the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, and her MSW in Policy Practice from the University of Washington. Prior to receiving her PhD, she conducted research focused on juvenile legal system reform and the evaluation of novel programs designed to address the complex needs of youth in contact with the juvenile legal system in Washington State.