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Dr. Hong is an assistant research professor at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) School of Social Work. His current projects include program evaluation and research by utilizing the Indiana Family & Social Services Administration’s integrative data system for quality improvement initiatives. Dr. Hong's research interests focus on equity and racial/ethnic disparity in education and behavioral health services. Over the previous 20 years Dr. Hong has led the program evaluation and research projects of the achievement gap, special education, racial/ethnic disparities, and equity in education and social work. Dr. Hong has published his articles in psychology, psychiatry, child welfare, and education journals and one of his articles about SW-PBIS has been continually recognized as one of the top downloaded articles in the journal, Psychology in the Schools, since 2017. Dr. Hong earned his doctoral degree majoring in educational psychology at the University of Minnesota in 2005.