Hsiu-Ju Lin, Ph.D.

Associate Research Professor

Hsiu-Ju Lin is an associate research professor in the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, and a research scientist for the Research Division at the Evaluation, Quality Management & Improvement Division, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

Her research interests include research method and statistics modeling related to longitudinal studies, multilevel modeling/hierarchical linear models, structural equal modeling, mental health and addiction problems, criminal justice, health psychology, and culture differences in preventive health behaviors.

Dr. Lin is the Principal Investigator or co-investigator of multiple federal and state funded grants focusing on mental health and substance abuse recovery service utilization and treatment outcomes, and assists in designing the research plan and overseeing the data analyses for all of these projects.

Her scholarship appears in more than 70 peer-reviewed publications including Drug and Alcohol Dependence, PLOS ONE, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Public Child Welfare, among others.

Dr. Lin received a Ph.D. in special/personality psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York where her dissertation focused on an integrative theoretical model for cancer screening. She earned an MA in general experimental psychology from the University of Hartford, and a BS in nursing from National Yang-Ming Medical University, School of Nursing in Taipei, Taiwan.

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