National Science Foundation Funds Prof. Hahm’s Covid-19 Resilience Study, CARES

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded grant funding to BUSSW associate professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm and co-principal investigator Cindy Liu for CARES, their developing study on the short and long-term effects of COVID-19 on young adults.

CARES (the COVID-19 Adult Resilience Experiences Study) will recruit 2,000 young adults, ages 18 to 30, currently residing in the United States or enrolled at a US educational institution. Through a series of interviews over a six-month period, Hahm and Liu will analyze the developmental, psychological and physical consequences of the pandemic on the study group, and will seek to understand how economic, ethnic and gender-based disparities may play a role in their health. The study’s findings will help to provide a basis for developing effective responses to the health and psychological needs of young adults in the aftermath of the pandemic.

The CARES project team is led by Co-Principal Investigator Cindy Liu – assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Program and Brigham and Women’s Hospital – and Principal Investigator Hyeouk Chris Hahm, an associate professor and Chair of Social Research at BUSSW.

Hahm is known for her work reducing health disparities among Asian American and young adult populations, and is the founder of the mental health intervention programs AWARE and Youth AWARE, which provide culturally responsive psychotherapy to college and high school students.

The CARES team also includes postdoctoral fellow Sunah Hyun and research assistants Emily Zhang and Fifi Wong.

The CARES team is actively recruiting participants for this study. To learn more about CARES or to participate in the study, please visit the CARES website at cares2020.com.

Prof. Hahm Launches ‘CARES’: COVID-19 Resilience Study for Young Adults

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