Research Team

Hyeouk Chris Hahm

Lead Researcher

Hyeouk Chris Hahm is a researcher dedicated to reducing health disparities with a particular emphasis on building empirical evidence of health risk behaviors (e.g., self-harm, suicide and HIV risk behaviors). Funded by NIMH grants (K01 and R34), Hahm has developed and tested a theoretical framework that explains suicide behaviors among Asian American women. Furthermore, she has 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 the Research Mentor Award at Boston University and Innovator’s Award from Asian Women for Health. Click here to view the AWARE Lab website.

Brian TaeHyuk Keum

Brian TaeHyuk Keum focuses on reducing health and mental health disparities among marginalized and oppressed individuals and communities with current research aimed at understanding online racism, perspectives on mental health, social justice in clinical training, etc. As a social justice-oriented scientist-practitioner, Keum’s past clinical experience serves to conduct research that improves mental health practice and informs advocacy. Keum has provided therapy to a diverse community and college-based clientele for the past 10 years, receiving his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Maryland-College Park and his American Psychological Association-accredited Doctoral Health Service Psychology Internship at the University of Maryland Counseling Center.