Biography
Dr. Eunice C. Wong is an associate behavioral scientist at the Rand Corporation. Dr. Wong has a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has expertise in substance abuse, mental health and service-seeking in racial and ethnic minority populations. Dr. Wong has conducted studies on service-seeking and barriers to care as well as concordance between patient and provider perspectives on obstacles to mental health care. Her more recent work has focused on trauma-exposed populations and the implementation of evidence-based mental health treatment into community settings.
Research Interest
Dr. Wong's research with trauma-exposed populations is currently focused on issues related to treatment access, quality of care and health outcomes. She is working on developing a psycho-educational video intervention targeting trauma injury survivors who are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Wong has also been involved in several community-partnered efforts aimed at enhancing the provision of evidence-based mental health treatment for depression and PTSD for underserved populations in New Orleans and South Los Angeles.