Hyeouk Chris Hahm
Professor and Associate Dean for Research Professor School of Social Work
Hyeouk Chris Hahm is a health services researcher dedicated to reducing health disparities among Asian American populations. She specializes in building empirical evidence of health risk behaviors among underserved populations (e.g., self-harm, suicide and HIV risk behaviors).
Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH, NICHD), the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Hahm has developed and tested a theoretical framework that explains suicide behaviors among Asian American women. Further, she developed culturally grounded interventions: AWARE (Asian American Women’s Actions in Resilience and Empowerment) and Youth AWARE, which has been implemented in colleges and high schools. Hahm is a recipient of a research mentor award at Boston University and the Innovator’s Award from Asian Women for Health.
She is an editorial board member Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work in the U.S., and the Journal of Korean Mental Health in South Korea. Hahm is an author of more than 75 peer-reviewed journal publications and has given 220 professional talks locally, nationally and internationally.