Lauren C. Ng, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
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.
Education
- University of Southern California, PhD
- University of Southern California, MA
- Yale University, BA
Publications
- Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/9/2024
Bird C, Somantri AR, Narasimhan R, Lee I, Bowers G, Loo S, Piwowarczyk L, Ng LC. Mental health disparities of sexual minority refugees and asylum seekers: Provider perspectives on trauma exposure, symptom presentation, and treatment approach. J Couns Psychol. 2024 Jul; 71(4):229-241. PMID: 38722596.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/5/2023
Ng LC, Hook K, Hailemariam M, Selamu M, Fekadu A, Hanlon C. Experience of traumatic events in people with severe mental illness in a low-income country: a qualitative study. Int J Ment Health Syst. 2023 Dec 05; 17(1):45. PMID: 38053187.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/9/2023
Barnett ML, Puffer ES, Ng LC, Jaguga F. Effective training practices for non-specialist providers to promote high-quality mental health intervention delivery: A narrative review with four case studies from Kenya, Ethiopia, and the United States. Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2023; 10:e26. PMID: 37854408.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/17/2023
Ng LC. Editorial: Youth Psychotherapy Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Throughout the World: Beyond Efficacy, Toward Accessibility. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2023 Aug; 62(8):850-852. PMID: 37075887.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/5/2023
Ng LC, Miller AN, Bowers G, Cheng Y, Brigham R, Tai MH, Smith AM, Mueser KT, Fortuna LR, Coles M. A pragmatic feasibility trial of the Primary Care Intervention for PTSD: A health service delivery model to reduce health disparities for low-income and BIPOC youth. Behav Res Ther. 2023 Jun; 165:104310. PMID: 37040669.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/23/2022
Ng LC, Oblath R, Brigham R, Tai MH, Coles M. Development and pilot testing of a five item traumatic stress screener for use with adolescents in pediatric primary care. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2022 Aug 23; 16(1):71. PMID: 35999580.
Read at: PubMed
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