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Hyeouk Chris Hahm is a Korean American health services professor and researcher. She is the Associate Dean of Research at Boston University and the first Asian American faculty member to be promoted to full professor at the Boston University School of Social Work. Her work specializes in health care for Asian American adolescents and people with mental illness. In 2016, she launched the Asian Women’s Action for Resilience and Empowerment (AWARE), a culturally informed group psychotherapy intervention for Asian American women.

Early life
Hahm was born and raised in Korea until moving to New York City in her early twenties to pursue a master's degree in Columbia University's School of Social Work.

Academia
In 2009, Hahm created the Asian American Women's Health Initiative Project (AWSHIP) at Boston University as an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Social Work. AWSHIP was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to investigate the mental health, sexual health, and substance use behaviors of Chinese American, Korean American, and Vietnamese American women. This project interviewed 600 Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese women between the ages of 18-35, who are children of immigrants and live in the Boston area, focusing on factors including acculturation, family relations, depression, sexual risk behaviors, and gender inequities to determine their relation to the different subsets of personal health and risk behaviors. Since 2010, AWSHIP has disseminated 17 journal articles and given over 60 presentations at both national and international conferences. In 2016, Hahm launched the Asian Women’s Action for Resilience and Empowerment (AWARE) program at Wellesley College and at Harvard in 2018. The program is part group therapy session, part research study. It aims to fulfill a need for mental health care for an under-researched demographic, Asian American immigrants. On September 13, 2017, Hahm published her the AWARE program's stage I Pilot Study in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. In 2020, Hahm launched the COVID-19 Adult Resilience Experiences Study (CARES) to examine mandated relocation experiences related to self-reported worry, grief, loneliness, and depressive, generalized anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hahm is a fellow and member of nominating committee of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). Hahm is on the editorial board of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence and has coedited over 90 publications. She also coedited the book, Asian American Parenting: Family Process and Intervention, in 2017.

In 2021, Hahm became the first Asian American who was promoted to full professor at BU School of Social Work.