Audrey Hang Hai, PhD, MSW, LMSW

Assistant Professor

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Audrey Hai

Biography

Dr. Audrey Hai is an Assistant Professor at Tulane University School of Social Work. As an immigrant and woman of color, she has witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of pervasive substance use in marginalized communities. Dr. Hai is dedicated to developing culturally appropriate and effective interventions to interrupt this cycle. She has developed a research program that bridges the areas of health disparities, intervention science, digital health innovation, epidemiology, and spiritual diversity. One of Dr. Hai’s current research projects, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, targets health disparities among Latinx young adults with alcohol use disorder. The project aims to transform the underutilized evidence-based Twelve-Step Facilitation intervention into a culturally appropriate, accessible, and scalable smartphone app-based solution. Dr. Hai’s research articles have appeared in top behavioral health journals such as Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Journal of Psychiatric Research.

 

Dr. Hai completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Boston University Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health. She was also a selected training fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Enhanced Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse. Dr. Hai earned her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also completed the Graduate Portfolio Program in Applied Statistical Modeling. She holds a MSW from the University of Southern California.

 

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioral Health
  • Health Disparities / Health Equity
  • HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis C
  • Mindfulness and Compassion
  • Public Health
  • Racial Equity
  • Research
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Substance Use and Substance Use Treatment

Education

  • PhD in Social Work from University of Texas at Austin
  • MSW from University of Southern California
  • BS in Information Management from Communication University of China
  • BS in Journalism from Communication University of China

Selected Publications

 

See Dr. Hai's CV or her ResearchGate page for more publications.

Selected Funding

2024-2029, Principal Investigator, “Culturally Adapting Spiritually and Technologically Informed Interventions to Reduce Alcohol-Related Health Disparities among Latinx Young Adults” (K01AA031323; $842,179), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

2023 – 2028, Co-Investigator, “Promoting viral suppression through the CHAMPS intervention in the Deep South” (R01MD019184; $5,573,525), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

2022 – 2027, Mentor, “Increasing Minority Physician and APRN Clinician-scientist Research Training to Equalize Addiction Medicine (IMPACT TEAM)” (R25DA056910; $1,337,280), National Institute on Drug Abuse