{"id":2609,"date":"2025-09-09T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/?page_id=2609"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:50:35","slug":"research-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/asian-womens-heath-initiative-project\/research-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Hyeouk Chris Hahm<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lead Researcher<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2019s 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\u2019s Award from Asian Women for Health. Click <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to view the AWARE Lab website.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Brian TaeHyuk Keum<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a social justice-oriented scientist-practitioner, Keum\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11637,"featured_media":0,"parent":149,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609\/revisions\/2626"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}