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Overview

Keng Yen Huang is affiliated with New York University in the United States and focuses on research at the intersection of psychology, health professions, and medicine. Their work primarily addresses issues related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, as well as early childhood education and development.

The scientist's research explores global maternal and child health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and health policy implementation science. There is also attention to migration, health, and trauma in their body of work.

Frequent publication venues for Huang include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • SLEEP
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Clinical Medicine Insights Psychiatry
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Huang include:

  • Applying technology to promote sexual and reproductive health and prevent gender based violence for adolescents in low and middle-income countries: digital health strategies synthesis from an umbrella review, 2022, BMC Health Services Research
  • Mental Health Consequences for Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review to Draw Lessons for LMICs, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • What should equity in global health research look like?, 2022, The Lancet
  • Mental Distress and Human Rights Violations During COVID-19: A Rapid Review of the Evidence Informing Rights, Mental Health Needs, and Public Policy Around Vulnerable Populations, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Impact of being an adolescent mother on subsequent maternal health, parenting, and child development in Kenyan low-income and high adversity informal settlement context, 2021, PLoS ONE

Huang collaborates frequently with co-authors including Manasi Kumar, Mary M. McKay, Laurie Miller Brotman, Sabrina Cheng, and R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez.

Their main fields of study encompass:

  • Psychology
  • Health Professions
  • Medicine

Subfields covered in Huang's research include:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Education
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Themes prominently addressed in their work are:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Best Publications

  • Maternal Knowledge of Child Development and Quality of Parenting among White, African-American and Hispanic Mothers.

    Keng Yen Huang;Margaret O'Brien Caughy;Janice L. Genevro;Therese L. Miller

  • Promoting Effective Parenting Practices and Preventing Child Behavior Problems in School Among Ethnically Diverse Families From Underserved, Urban Communities

    Laurie Miller Brotman;Esther Calzada;Keng Yen Huang;Sharon Kingston

  • Early Childhood Family Intervention and Long-term Obesity Prevention Among High-risk Minority Youth

    Laurie Miller Brotman;Spring Dawson-McClure;Keng Yen Huang;Rachelle Theise

  • Test of a cultural framework of parenting with Latino families of young children.

    Esther J. Calzada;Keng Yen Huang;Catherine Anicama;Yenny Fernandez

  • Effortful control, social competence, and adjustment problems in children at risk for psychopathology.

    Tracy A. Dennis;Laurie Miller Brotman;Keng Yen Huang;Kathleen Kiely Gouley

  • Family and Teacher Characteristics as Predictors of Parent Involvement in Education During Early Childhood Among Afro-Caribbean and Latino Immigrant Families:

    Esther J. Calzada;Keng Yen Huang;Miguel Hernandez;Erika Soriano

  • Depression and its psychosocial risk factors in pregnant Kenyan adolescents: A cross-sectional study in a community health Centre of Nairobi

    Judith Osok;Pius Kigamwa;Ann Vander Stoep;Keng Yen Huang

  • Effects of a Psychosocial Family-Based Preventive Intervention on Cortisol Response to a Social Challenge in Preschoolers at High Risk for Antisocial Behavior

    Laurie Miller Brotman;Kathleen Kiely Gouley;Keng Yen Huang;Dimitra Kamboukos

  • School contexts as social determinants of child health: current practices and implications for future public health practice.

    Keng Yen Huang;Sabrina Cheng;Rachelle Theise

  • Preventive Intervention for Preschoolers at High Risk for Antisocial Behavior: Long-Term Effects on Child Physical Aggression and Parenting Practices.

    Laurie Miller Brotman;Kathleen Kiely Gouley;Keng Yen Huang;Amanda Rosenfelt

  • A population-level approach to promoting healthy child development and school success in low-income, urban neighborhoods: impact on parenting and child conduct problems

    Spring Dawson-McClure;Esther Calzada;Keng Yen Huang;Dimitra Kamboukos

  • Mental Health Consequences for Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review to Draw Lessons for LMICs

    Modhurima Moitra;Muhammad Rahman;Pamela Y. Collins;Fatima Gohar

  • Cluster (School) RCT of ParentCorps: Impact on Kindergarten Academic Achievement

    Laurie Miller Brotman;Spring Dawson-McClure;Esther J. Calzada;Keng Yen Huang

  • Understanding Relations Among Early Family Environment, Cortisol Response, and Child Aggression via a Prevention Experiment

    Colleen R. O'Neal;Laurie Miller Brotman;Keng Yen Huang;Kathleen Kiely Gouley

  • Adolescent Pregnancy and Challenges in Kenyan Context: Perspectives from Multiple Community Stakeholders

    Manasi Kumar;Keng Yen Huang;Caleb Othieno;Dalton Wamalwa

  • Physical and Mental Health Disparities among Young Children of Asian Immigrants

    Keng Yen Huang;Esther Calzada;Sabrina Cheng;Laurie Miller Brotman

  • An experimental test of parenting practices as a mediator of early childhood physical aggression.

    Laurie Miller Brotman;Colleen R. O'Neal;Keng Yen Huang;Kathleen Kiely Gouley

  • Construct Validation of the Social Competence Scale in Preschool‐age Children

    Kathleen Kiely Gouley;Laurie Miller Brotman;Keng Yen Huang;Patrick E. Shrout

  • PARENT INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION AS A MODERATOR OF FAMILY AND NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT ON SCHOOL READINESS AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN

    Sharon Kingston;Keng Yen Huang;Esther Calzada;Spring Dawson-Mcclure

  • Effects of ParentCorps in Prekindergarten on Child Mental Health and Academic Performance: Follow-up of a Randomized Clinical Trial Through 8 Years of Age

    Laurie Miller Brotman;Spring Dawson-McClure;Dimitra Kamboukos;Keng Yen Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimberly Hoagwood
Kimberly Hoagwood New York University
Patrick E. Shrout
Patrick E. Shrout New York University
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Tracy A. Dennis
Tracy A. Dennis Hunter College
Gary W. Harper
Gary W. Harper University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Douglas M. Teti
Douglas M. Teti Pennsylvania State University
Bruce F. Chorpita
Bruce F. Chorpita University of California, Los Angeles
Michael J. Boivin
Michael J. Boivin Michigan State University
Edward Seidman
Edward Seidman New York University

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