Victoria K. Ngo
Education
Overview
Biography
Victoria Ngo (Ph.D.) is clinical psychologist and Associate Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Los Angeles. She has extensive expertise in developing, evaluating, and capacity building for evidence-based treatments for depression, anxiety, and trauma in diverse communities in the U.S. and abroad. She has worked on several community-partnered studies of evidence-based interventions for depression and anxiety for underserved communities. She currently leads the cognitive behavior therapy training for several collaborative care projects and is funded by the NIMH to evaluate the adaptation and implementation of CBT for depression for resource poor contexts in the U.S. (Los Angeles and New Orleans). For the past nine years, she has been working in Vietnam to develop research and clinical training capacity and infrastructure and is currently co-PI of the NIH-funded Vietnam Childrens Mental Health Research Training Program, co-PI of a NIMH R01 to study cross-cultural variability in stress and coping across Vietnam and the U.S. She also leads an initiative to build clinical capacity for treatment of depression within the primary care system in Vietnam. Dr. Ngo has also taken leadership roles in minority mental health policy efforts in the U.S., including membership in the State of Tennessee Mental Health Planning Council Cultural Competence Committee (2001-2004), and chairing the State Cultural Competence Committee Service System Task Group in 2004. In Los Angeles, she worked with the Asian Pacific American Community Research Roundtable in Los Angeles to support community research partnerships around mental health efforts.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Culture, Stress, and Coping in Vietnam and the U.S.
- Comunity Partners in Care Cognitive Behavior Therapy Implementation in Ethnic MInority Communities
- Vietnam Collaborative Care for Depression
- Depression and ART in Uganda
Health & Health Care
Biography
Victoria Ngo (Ph.D.) is clinical psychologist and Associate Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Los Angeles. She has extensive expertise in developing, evaluating, and capacity building for evidence-based treatments for depression, anxiety, and trauma in diverse communities in the U.S. and abroad. She has worked on several community-partnered studies of evidence-based interventions for depression and anxiety for underserved communities. She currently leads the cognitive behavior therapy training for several collaborative care projects and is funded by the NIMH to evaluate the adaptation and implementation of CBT for depression for resource poor contexts in the U.S. (Los Angeles and New Orleans). For the past nine years, she has been working in Vietnam to develop research and clinical training capacity and infrastructure and is currently co-PI of the NIH-funded Vietnam Childrens Mental Health Research Training Program, co-PI of a NIMH R01 to study cross-cultural variability in stress and coping across Vietnam and the U.S. She also leads an initiative to build clinical capacity for treatment of depression within the primary care system in Vietnam. Dr. Ngo has also taken leadership roles in minority mental health policy efforts in the U.S., including membership in the State of Tennessee Mental Health Planning Council Cultural Competence Committee (2001-2004), and chairing the State Cultural Competence Committee Service System Task Group in 2004. In Los Angeles, she worked with the Asian Pacific American Community Research Roundtable in Los Angeles to support community research partnerships around mental health efforts.
Recent Projects
- CPIC Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Implementation in Community Settings
- Culture, Stress, and Coping
- Collaborative Care for Depression in Vietnam
- Depression and ART in Uganda
Selected Publications
Ngo, V. Centanni, A., Wong, E., Wennerstrom, A. & Miranda, J., "Capacity for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Delivery in Resource Poor Disaster Impacted Contexts.," Ethnicity and Disease, 2010
Mendel, P., Ngo, V., Dixon, E., Stockdale, S., Jones, F., Chung, B., et al., "Use of a Community Engagement Conference to Initiate a Community-Partnered, Randomized Trial for Depression Care Improvement in Underserved Communities.," Ethnicity and Disease, 2010
Ngo, V., Asarnow, J., Lange, J., Jaycox, L., Rea, M., Landon, C., Tang, L., & Miranda, J., "Do Quality Improvement Interventions for Depressed Youth Result in Differential Outcomes for Ethnic Minorities: A Randomized Trial?" Psychiatric Services, 60(10):1257-1364, 2009
Ngo, V., Langley, A., Kataoka, S., Nadeen, E., Escudero, P., Stein, B., "Providing Evidence Based Practice to Ethnically Diverse Youth: Examples from the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) Program.," Journal of the American Academy on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47:858-862, 2008
Lee, R., Choe, J., Kim, G., & Ngo, V., "The construction of the family acculturation conflicts and tactics scale.," Journal of Counseling Psychology, 47:211-222, 2000
Honors & Awards
- Summa Cum Laude, University of California - Davis
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