Eunice Wong, Ph.D.
RAND
Junior Investigator, Vulnerable Populations
Project Title: Mental Health Outcomes Among New U.S. Immigrant Children
"The New Connections award has helped establish my credibility as an independent investigator, allowed me to network with other colleagues with similar research interests, and provided opportunities to refine my research skills. In addition to these tangible gains, the New Connections award has provided me with many intangible gains such as being connected to and inspired by so many others devoted to improving the health and well-being of the underserved."
Project Description
Even though immigrants make up an ever increasing part of the country, there is limited knowledge on immigrants' adjustment to life in the U.S., especially in terms of mental health outcomes.
Wong's study proposes to examine depression outcomes and associated risk factors among U.S. immigrants using the New Immigrant Survey, the first study conducted with a nationally representative sample of new U.S. immigrants. She will examine a variety of pre-immigration and post-migration factors related to successful adaptation in the U.S.
Biography
Eunice Wong, Ph.D., is an associate behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She has research expertise in mental health and substance abuse in racial and ethnic minority populations. Wong has published on the role of cultural influences on psychological assessment, treatment process and distress.
Her more recent work has focused on treatment access, health outcomes and psychoeducation interventions for trauma-exposed populations. She has also conducted work on acculturation and substance abuse, racial and ethnic disparities in health and cultural influences on substance abuse treatment outcomes.
2006-2007 New Connections Initiative Awards
