Yung awarded Ohio Health Policy Researcher Award
 | | Betty Yung receives the Ohio Health Policy Researcher Award from Bill Hayes, president of The Health Policy Institute of Ohio. |
Betty Yung, Ph.D., a professor at Wright State University’s School of Professional Psychology (SOPP), is among the four 2008 winners of the Annual Ohio Health Policy Research Awards, given annually by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio to recognize the best applied health policy research in Ohio.
Yung was awarded the Ohio Health Policy Researcher Award for researchers at tier 2-4 universities for the study “Capacity-building Needs of Minority Nonprofits.” Yung led a team of researchers from Wright State, University of Akron, University of Cincinnati and Case Western Reserve University in a statewide study of the capacity-building needs of minority health service providers. The research was funded by the Ohio Commission on Minority Health.
Yung received her award at a luncheon on December 12 at the “Bridging Policy and Practice: The 2008 Ohio Health Data and Research Conference” in Columbus.
Yung is the director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Violence Prevention located at SOPP’s Duke E. Ellis Human Development Institute on Edwin C. Moses Boulevard. She has done extensive research and publication on ethnic and cultural health issues, particularly violence affecting ethnic minority groups. She has had a major programmatic role in the development and evaluation of the Positive Adolescent Choices Training (PACT) program begun in 1989, an adolescent children’s violence prevention program that has since expanded to 25 states.
“Dr. Yung’s award illustrates the kind of impact the faculty at SOPP have on the community and the state,” said Larry James, Ph.D., SOPP dean. “Our mission here is to serve the underserved and promote cultural sensitivity. Dr. Yung’s research certainly accomplishes that.”
The Annual Ohio Health Policy Research Awards prioritize health topics emphasizing community and population-based policy recommendations, including issues such as health care access, health care administration, health care financing, community health, health education, public health, health promotion, environmental health, behavioral health, mental health, applied epidemiology and allied health, according to the Health Policy Institute of Ohio.
The 2008 awards are funded by The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati.
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