Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Miami (UM). She is also an affiliate of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center's (CCC) Caner Control Program and the CU Population Center. Her mixed methods study employs nationally representative surveys and qualitative interviewing to explore racial and ethnic differences in HPV vaccinations—particularly at the intersections of gender and age—and, in turn, how inequalities are reproduced. In 2023, Kim received the Sylvester CCC's Early Career Advancement Award, which will be funding her new project on HPV vaccine disparities in South Florida's catchment area.

Kim is a first-generation scholar and is originally from Long Beach, CA. She earned her B.A. in both Sociology and Asian American Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Kim also worked as a manager at an educational company for underserved youth and as a Family Advocate at the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF), the first multi-lingual and multi-cultural domestic violence shelter in the nation.

Through the UM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Mini-Grant, Kim helped organize and facilitate the inaugural UM Junior Faculty of Color Writing Circles Program and Writing Retreat in 2023. 
Kim received the 2019-2020 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award and the 2017-2018 Graduate TA/GPTI Excellence Award. She also received the CU Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship and the Ralph and Barbara Dakin Award.