Tuyet Mai Hoang is an assistant professor in the Department of School of Social Work. She is affiliated with intelligence, learning, and plasticity. She is a cisgender Vietnamese American first-generation college scholar. She is interested in conducting a community-engaged approach to research on racial justice and disparities in health outcomes. She works as a part of a team consisting of community members, providers, patients, researchers with a common goal to dismantle racism & health disparities. She believes that research is not just about advancing knowledge but also a place for people to gather, heal, and empower each other. Hoang is a mother of three young children and had given birth during the COVID-19. Her personal experiences of racial trauma and navigation of social rights as a Woman of Color and a mother motivate her to approach research from a place of humility. Hoang aims to center her work in the wellbeing and healing process of Communities of Color. Hoang adopts a critical lens with an emphasis in community-engaged and patient-centered approaches by elevating the voices and describing unique struggles of Communities of Color. Her hope is that her team's research can inform policy changes, address racial health disparities, and support the healing process of communities.

Education

• B.A., economics, Bates College, 2009

• M.S., educational psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017

• Ph.D., educational psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020

Research areas:

• Counseling psychology 

• Multiculturalism

• Critical consciousness

Research interests:

• Youth mental health

• Psychoeducation

• Alcohol and drug assessment

Dr. Hoang’s research program is dedicated to addressing racial injustices in both educational and clinical settings. Field practice helps her to contextualize scholarly inquiry and facilitate community-engaged research collaborations. In general, the purpose of her research is to (1) investigate psychological factors that maintain systemic racial inequity that impact health and wellbeing, and (2) address health disparities to increase culturally responsive access and service delivery for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).  Her research cuts across educational and clinical settings. Currently, it emphasizes the experiences of Women of Color in areas such as cancer survivorship, maternal mental health, and mistreatment as well as the experiences of Youth of Color with online discrimination.