Dr. Jung Kwak is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Kwak's primary research areas focus on surrogate end-of-life care decision-making and developing caregiver support interventions to facilitate informed decision-making and improve mental health outcomes among family caregivers. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on research methods and statistics.

Currently, Dr. Kwak is collaborating with her colleagues from UWM and University of Nebraska-Omaha on multi-site, randomized control trials of care management intervention designed to improve caregiver outcomes. In 2010, she was selected as a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar. Grant support from the Hartford program and the Parkinson Research Institute at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, she is conducting a study to identify caregiving and decision-support needs among caregivers of people with dementia or Parkinson's disease. Dr. Kwak's scholarly work on end-of-life care and caregiving has been published in journals including Aging and Society, American Journal of Nursing, The Gerontologist, and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Dr. Kwak received her doctorate in aging studies from the University of South Florida and completed her post-doctoral training as a fellow at the Center on Age and Community, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.