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Chenglin Hong
Chenglin Hong, PhD
University of Connecticut, School of Social Work - Assistant Professor
Email: chenglin.hong@uconn.edu
Education
PhD, Social Welfare, UCLA
MSW/MPH, University of Washington
Research Interests
Intimate partner violence, HIV/STI prevention and care, sexual and gender minority health, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use, syndemics, eHealth, mHealth, and technology-based interventions, implementation science, global health and mental health
BIO
Chenglin Hong is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut. His research is dedicated to addressing health disparities among sexual and gender minorities and the LGBTQ+ communities. Trained as a social worker and community-based participatory researcher, he focuses on developing and testing interventions to improve sexual health and mental health outcomes for gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men (SMM), with a strong emphasis on HIV prevention and intimate partner violence (IPV) both in the U.S. and globally. His work bridges the fields of social work, public health, psychology, data science, and implementation science, aiming to create interventions that challenge violence, mental health, substance use, stigma, HIV, and other syndemic conditions within SMM communities. He is particularly interested in understanding the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of eHealth and other technology-based interventions to promote IPV help-seeking and HIV/STI prevention services through implementation science, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (DoxyPEP) among SMM. His research spans multiple regions in Global Health settings, including the U.S., China, Kenya, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Projects
Principal Investigator, Leveraging Implementation Science for Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Prevention Among Young Sexual and Gender Diverse Individuals Who Use Substances. Active
Principal Investigator, Utilizing Machine Learning and Technology-Based Intervention for Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Prevention among Diverse Young Sexual Minority Men. Completed
Publications

Recent

Mammadli T, Mack LM, Deng Y, Betz GD, Hong C, Runge Z, Giovanni T, Kamugisha S, DeForge B, Whitfield DL (2025).
Substance use among transgender and gender nonconforming youth and young adults living in the US: A systematic review
Social Science and Medicine, 383, 118330. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118330.

Cascalheira CJ, Corro K, Hong C, Rohleen TK, Trac O, Beikzadeh M, Scheer JR, Hamdi SM, Boubrahimi SF, Holloway IW (2025).
An analysis of Mpox communication on Reddit vs Twitter during the 2022 Mpox outbreak
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 22 (3), 1536-1551. doi: 10.1007/s13178-024-01058-4.

Beikzadeh M, Holloway IW, Kärkkäinen K, Hong C, Cascalheira C, Wu ESC, Boka C, Avendaño AC, Yonko EA, Sarrafzadeh M (2025).
Identifying substance use and high-risk sexual behavior among sexual and gender minority youth by using mobile phone data: Development and validation study
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 17, e68013. doi: 10.2196/68013. PMCID: PMC12360732.

Hong C, Wang L, Wang Y, Wang Y, Chen L, Wong FY, Simoni JM, Holloway IW, John SA (2025).
Barriers and facilitators to engagement with the PrEP care continuum among sexual minority men in China: A systematic review
Sexual Health, 22 (4), SH2502. doi: 10.1071/SH25021.

Krueger EA, Cordero L, Hong C, Flynn R, Holloway IW (2025).
Cannabis use patterns among emerging adults in California who use tobacco: Differences by sexual identity, gender identity, and sex assigned at birth
Addictive Behaviors Reports, 22, 100624. doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2025.100624. PMCID: PMC12302247.

Dr. Hong's Google Scholar Profile
Selected Press