Past Project
Raising Awareness About Mental Health, Long‑COVID, and Clinical Trial Participation in Vietnamese Americans
August 2023 - March 2024
PROJECT GOALS
To address barriers in accessing mental health services among the Vietnamese American population in Harris and Fort Bend counties.
For this project,
Community partner Boat People SOS Houston (BPSOSH) worked with Vietnamese licensed mental health professional to culturally tailor a wellness curriculum and train community health workers to facilitate. Educational outreach was provided about the importance of mental health, the existence of long COVID, and why clinical therapeutic trials must be inclusive within the Vietnamese American community through community partners.
Counties impacted Harris, Fort Bend
PARTNERS Community Partners
The success of this Texas CEAL Consortium project is due to the dedicated work of our community partners. Boat People SOS Houston (BPSOSH)
Meet the principal investigator Bich-May Nguyen
In addition to serving as a principal investigator for Texas CEAL Consortium, Dr. Nguyen is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Houston, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine.