Chenglin Hong, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Dr. Hong’s research is dedicated to addressing health disparities among sexual and gender minorities, particularly within LGBTQ+ communities. Trained as a social worker and community-based participatory researcher, he focuses on developing and testing interventions to improve sexual health and mental health outcomes for gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men (SMM), with a strong emphasis on HIV prevention and intimate partner violence (IPV) both in the U.S. and globally. His work bridges the fields of social work, public health, psychology, data science, and implementation science, aiming to create interventions that challenge violence, stigma, HIV, and other syndemic conditions within SMM communities. Dr. Hong is particularly interested in the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of eHealth, mHealth, and other technology-based interventions to promote IPV help-seeking and HIV/STI prevention services, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (DoxyPEP) among SMM. His research spans multiple regions in Global Health settings, including the U.S., China, Kenya, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Dr. Hong has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the International AIDS Society, Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, and AIDS and Behavior. He has presented more than 50 abstracts at leading interdisciplinary conferences, including the International AIDS Conference. His work has been funded by the American Psychological Association Science Directorate and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and has been recognized by the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE).

Dr. Hong earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and his MSW and MPH from the University of Washington (Seattle). He also received comprehensive training in HIV and Implementation Science at the Mid-Atlantic CFAR Consortium (MACC+) Implementation Science Hub at Johns Hopkins University. Currently, he is a visiting scholar with the HIV Implementation Science Coordination Initiative at Northwestern University.

Research Interests

Intimate Partner Violence

HIV/STI Prevention and Care

Sexual and Gender Minority Health

Syndemics

eHealth, mHealth, and Technology-Based Interventions

Implementation Science

Global Health and Mental Health

Curriculum Vitae

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