Lauren C. Ng, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Lauren C. Ng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and a Clinical Psychologist at Boston Medical Center. Her research focuses on the mediators and moderators of, and interventions for, psychological outcomes of trauma exposure in low- and middle-income countries and low resource settings in the United States. The ultimate goal of her research is to increase access to effective and culturally appropriate mental health services and to reduce disparities in care and the burden of mental illness in some of the most vulnerable populations around the world. She is currently the principal investigator of a K23 patient-oriented mentored career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to assess the feasibility, effectiveness and implementation of an evidence-based intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in patients with serious mental illness in Ethiopian primary care clinics.

Her clinical specialty is providing evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapies to diverse, primarily low-income, child and adult clients coping with PTSD. She currently sees clients who are refugees and asylum seekers through the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights.

She has completed two NIMH funded postdoctoral research fellowships in global mental health; the first at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the second at the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California and her BA from Yale University.

Publications

  • Published 3/31/2025

    Molebatsi K, Lobakeng T, Ng LC, Chiliza B. Cultural adaptation of a brief psychological intervention for PTSD in severe mental illness: a Botswana context. Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2025; 12:e45. PMID: 40303954.

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  • Published 1/16/2025

    Aguilar Silvan Y, Fortuna LR, Spencer AE, Ng LC. Engagement in child psychiatry department appointments: An analysis of electronic medical records in one safety-net hospital in New England, USA. J Health Serv Res Policy. 2025 Apr; 30(2):79-88. PMID: 39817346.

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  • Published 10/2/2024

    Aguilar Silvan Y, Hamza S, Fardeheb S, Bird C, Ng LC. Marketing mental health services: a mixed-methods analysis of racially and ethnically diverse college students' engagement with and perspectives on U.S. university mental health clinics' websites. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Oct 02; 24(1):1163. PMID: 39354461.

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  • Published 7/9/2024

    Smith AM, Prom MC, Ng LC. A Qualitative Investigation of Characteristics Impacting Clinical Decision-Making in Integrated Behavioral Health Care. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2024 Oct; 51(4):561-587. PMID: 38982024.

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  • Published 6/27/2024

    Chodzen G, Bowers G, Chavira D, Ng LC. "Being who I am means everything bad can happen": Chronic structural stressors in trauma focused therapy sessions with marginalized adolescents. Psychol Trauma. 2024 Jun 27. PMID: 38934935.

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Education

  • University of Southern California, PhD
  • University of Southern California, MA
  • Yale University, BA