Dr. Soo Jeong Youn is the Director of Evaluation at Community Psychiatry Program for Research in Implementation and Dissemination of Evidence-Based Treatments (PRIDE) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and an Assistant Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University, and her clinical internship at Massachusetts Mental Health Center/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Youn aims to tackle the access-to-care problem and health disparities that exist in mental health and disproportionately impact underserved populations. She has extensive experience conducting clinical care and research in community health centers and working with paraprofessionals as a novel workforce in delivering evidence-based practices. Her clinical and research endeavors focus on the adaptation, implementation, and dissemination of evidence-based practices for diverse systems and communities for a variety of mental health difficulties.