Ha Do Byon, Ph.D., MPH, MS, RN, is an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Nursing, where he joined the faculty in June 2026. His research focuses on improving the health and safety of healthcare workers, with an emphasis on workplace violence prevention in healthcare settings—particularly type II customer-on-worker violence. His clinical experience as a home visiting nurse in East and Central Harlem, New York, continues to inform his research and teaching by grounding his work in the realities of community-based care.

His research is also expanding to cardiovascular health among healthcare workers, including early cardiovascular risk phenotypes, dietary patterns, and cardiometabolic risk. Across these areas, his long-term research agenda is to protect those who care by generating evidence to improve healthcare worker safety, health, well-being, and retention.

He also has methodological expertise in health-related data analysis, epidemiology, and quantitative research design. He has taught graduate-level statistics courses and served as a biostatistician on multiple funded research projects.

Expertise

• Content expertise: healthcare worker health and safety; workplace violence prevention; cardiovascular health of healthcare workers; nursing workforce research.
• Methodological and data analysis expertise: epidemiology; biostatistics; regression modeling; survival analysis; longitudinal data analysis; complex survey data analysis; meta-analysis; propensity score methods; latent class analysis; structural equation modeling; missing data analysis; predictive and classification modeling including machine learning approaches.

Classes Taught

• Introduction to Statistics in Health Care Research
• Advanced Statistical Methods
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Epidemiology
• Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems

Education Background

Byon completed his Ph.D. in Nursing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with research focused on type II workplace violence in home healthcare. Nursing is his second career. Before entering nursing, he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Korea University in South Korea. He later completed an Associate Degree in Nursing at Queensborough Community College in New York, followed by a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Master of Science in Community/Public Health Nursing, and a Master of Public Health in Community Health Education from Hunter College, City University of New York.

Research or Scholarship

His scholarship focuses on improving the health and safety of healthcare workers. His primary research area is workplace violence prevention in healthcare settings, particularly type II (customer-on-worker) workplace violence. His work has examined the prevalence, risk factors, reporting, and underreporting of workplace violence, as well as the use of natural language processing to identify workplace violence from clinical notes for data-driven improvement. He is also interested in developing training programs to prepare healthcare students and the healthcare workforce to prevent, respond to, and report workplace violence, as well as to provide post-incident support.

Byon’s research is also expanding to cardiovascular health among healthcare workers, with attention to early cardiovascular risk phenotypes, dietary patterns, and cardiometabolic risk. In addition, he contributes as a biostatistician and research collaborator on health-related studies, including cardiovascular disease and heart failure research. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and has served as PI, Co-I, or biostatistician on multiple externally and internally funded research studies.

Awards, Recognitions, and Affiliations

Byon has served in several academic leadership and service roles. At the University of Virginia, he served as co-director of the Clinical Nurse Leader Program and led efforts related to Board of Nursing reapproval and AACN/CCNE re-accreditation. He also served as co-facilitator of the Data Science Area of Excellence in the School of Nursing. In addition, he contributed to multiple school and university committees, including the University of Virginia Provost Teaching Awards Committee and various School of Nursing Faculty Organization committees, some of which he chaired.

He currently serves as treasurer of the Asian American/Pacific Islander Nurses Association (AAPINA) and as a Board of Directors member of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA). He also served on the Home Care Workplace Violence Prevention Technical Advisory Panel for The Joint Commission. He serves on the editorial boards of Workplace Health & Safety and the Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal.