The delivery system

Workforce composition, the availability of culturally and linguistically concordant care, and state-level policy environments.

US Immigrant & Refugee Support Dashboard (immigrantmap.us)

• Na, S., Solomon, P., & Yoo, N. (2026). Impact of Asian Language-Speaking Mental Health Providers on Asian American Patient Volume in Mental Health Treatment Facilities: Moderating Role of Medicaid Spending. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. doi.org/10.1007/s40615-026-02853-y
• Baslock, D. & Yoo, N. (2026). Multidimensional Approaches to Ranking State-level Rurality to Enhance Comparisons across States. Milbank Quarterly. doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.70067
• Yoo, N., Park, M., & Chang, D.F. (2025). Using Computational Methods to Assess Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Diversity and Spatial Accessibility of the Clinical Social Work Workforce in the United States. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. doi.org/10.1086/738140
• Yoo, N., Hong, Y., & Choi, Y. (2025). Explaining racial/ethnic disparities in telehealth use with different levels of English proficiency: A decomposition approach. Telemedicine Reports. doi.org/10.1177/26924366251379188
• Yoo, N. (2026). KIRD: Korea Immigration & Residential Diversity Dataset (2006–2024) [Dataset]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.20355728
• Yoo, N., Nicholson, Jr., H., Chang, D., & Okazaki, S. (2023). State-level implicit and explicit bias index against Asian Americans across the United States [Dataset]. New York University Open Data. doi.org/10.58153/x62z7-6sj68
• Yoo, N. (Under review). A national, geocoded dataset of US nonprofit organizations serving immigrants and refugees, built from IRS administrative records and augmented with large language model derived service and language access variables. Under review
• Yoo, N. (Under review). Developing a service access score for immigrant- and refugee-serving organizations in the United States: service deserts, language access, and transit dependence. Under review
• Yoo, N. (Under review). State immigrant-policy inclusion and immigrant mental health outcomes: mental health service access as a mediator. Under review
• Yoo, N., & Weaver, A. (Revised and Resubmitted). Closing the Urban-Rural Gap in Access to Racially Competent Mental Health Providers: The Role of Telehealth and Interstate Licensing Compacts. Under review
• Yoo, N., Hassan, S., & Magan, I. (Under review). State Variation in Arabic-Speaking and Muslim-Affirming Mental Health Provider Supply in the US. Under review
• Yoo, N., Choi, Y., & Hong, Y. (Under review). Decomposing racial/ethnic disparities in the use of telemental health services among U.S. adolescents: Results from the National Survey. Under review
• Yoo, N. (Under review). KIRD: a harmonized spatiotemporal dataset of immigrants and residential diversity in South Korea, 2006-2024. Under review
• Yoo, N. (Under review). Diversification and dispersion: the residential geography of immigrant variation and segregation in South Korea, 2014-2024. Under review

The populations

Well-being, coping, help-seeking, care networks, and the use of digital and AI-mediated mental health resources.

Technology, AI, and digital life

• Youm, S., Yoo, N., Jang, S.H., & Dorr, B. (2026). Beyond Positive or Negative: How Mixed Emotions on Reddit Are Linked to Depressive Symptoms in Asian American Families. Digital Minds Workshop at ICWSM 2026. doi.org/10.36190/2026.26
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (2026). Who is Willing to Use AI Mental Health Chatbots? Perceived Impact of AI in Healthcare Predicts Acceptance, with Higher Willingness among Immigrants. Computers in Human Behavior Reports. doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2026.101111
• Yoo, N., Rodwin, A., Park, M., Youm, S. & Jang, S. H. (2026). Emotional Expression and Mental Health Support in BTS fandom communities: A Natural Language Processing Study on YouTube comments. JMIR Infodemiology. doi.org/10.2196/74397
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (2024). Enhancing or compensating? The role of on- and offline social capital and technological self-efficacy on subjective well-being among immigrants and natives. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 27(11), 846-855. doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2024.0152
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (2023). Increased digital technology use, technological self-efficacy, and life satisfaction among North Korean migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic: Moderated Moderation. Digital Health. 9, 20552076231171503. doi.org/10.1177/20552076231171503
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (Revised and Resubmitted). How bridging and bonding social capital shape performance expectancy of digital transformation among immigrants and natives. Under review
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (Revised and Resubmitted). The Immigrant Advantage in ChatGPT Adoption: Decomposing Nativity Gaps Across Awareness, Use, and Use Cases. Under review
• Yoo, N., Lee, J., Chow, C., & Cureton, A. (Under review). Peer Support and Digital Mutual Aid among DACA Recipients Under Liminal Legality: A Computational Text Analysis of a Reddit Community. Under review
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). AI competence, ethics awareness, and subjective well-being: Diverging pathways between immigrants and natives. Under review
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). Who Benefits More from AI Healthcare? An Adoption Funnel and Health Satisfaction Among Immigrants and Natives. Under review
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). Generative AI Use Frequency Among Migrants and Natives in South Korea: The Role of Technological Self-Efficacy and AI Literacy. Under review
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). Connected but Burdened: Broadband Affordability and Subjective Well-Being among North Korean Migrants and South Korean Natives. Under review
• Yoo, N., Lee, J., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). Beyond the Digital Divide: E-Government Services and Subjective Well-Being Among North Korean Refugees and Native-born Koreans During COVID-19. Under review
• Yoo, N., Lee, J., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). Domain-Specific Patterns of AI Acceptance Among North Korean Refugees and Native South Koreans: A Latent Profile Analysis. Under review
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). From behind to ahead: the generative-AI divide between immigrants and natives in South Korea, a difference-in-differences study, 2019-2023. Under review
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). Generational Cohort and Social Capital in AI Adoption among Native-Born and Immigrant Adults in South Korea. Under review
• Yoo, N., Lim, J., Park, D., He, P., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). Mapping the American Exit: Push Factors, Pull Factors, and Migration Capabilities in U.S. Emigration Discourse on r/Amerexit. Under review
• Yoo, N., Jang, S.H., & Park, M. (Under review). Heterogeneous Associations between Screen Time and Anxiety among Immigrant-Origin Youths: The Moderating Role of Phenotypic Visibility. Under review
• Ahn, E., Esposito, M., & Yoo, N. (Under review). Divergent Trajectories of AI Divides: Inequality in Usage and Adoption Across Sociodemographic Groups and Technology Types, 2023-2024. Under review

Identity, discrimination, and intergroup relations

• Maglalang, D.D., Yoo, N., Park, M., Nicholson, H. L. Jr., de Leon, C., Okazaki, S., Chang, D.F., (2026). COVID-19 Racial Discrimination and Substance Use among Asian Americans by Gender. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. doi.org/10.1007/s40615-026-03028-5
• Nicholson, H., Yoo, N., Okazaki, S., Chang, D.F., & Craig, M. (2026). Inter-minority relations: Factors shaping cognitive and affective intergroup attitudes between Asian and Black Americans. Social Problems. doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae075
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H., (2024). Does social empathy moderate fear-induced minority blaming during the COVID-19 pandemic? Social Science & Medicine. 346, 116719. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116719
• Yoo, N., Nicholson, H., Chang, D.F., & Okazaki, S., (2023) Mapping anti-Asian xenophobia: State-level variation in implicit and explicit bias against Asian Americans across the United States. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 9, 23780231231196517. doi.org/10.1177/23780231231196517
• Chang, D.F., Yoo, N., Prasai, A., Lee, C.S., & Okazaki, S. (2023). From racial awakening to collective action: Asian Americans’ pathways to activism and benevolent support during COVID-19. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 29(4), 503-515. doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000617
• Okazaki, S., Lee, C.S., Prasai, A., Chang, D.F., & Yoo, N. (2022). Disaggregating the Data: Diversity of COVID-19 stressors, discrimination, and mental health among Asian American communities. Frontiers in Public Health. 10, 956076. doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.956076
• Yoo, N., Lee, C.S., Prasai, A., Chang, D.F., & Okazaki, S. (Under review). I don't belong here: Thwarted belongingness, collective identification, and suicidal ideation among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under review
• Yoo, N., Prasai, A., Okazaki, S., & Chang, D.F. (Under review). Profiles of coping with anti-Asian discrimination: Avoidant coping, discrimination exposure, and psychological distress among Asian American adults. Under review
• Yoo, N., Chang, D.F., Prasai, A., Patankar, K., & Okazaki, S. (Under review). The toll of racial ambiguity: street race concordance-discordance and mental health among Asian Americans. Under review
• Yoo, N., Nicholson, H., Okazaki, S., & Chang, D.F. (Under review). The Residential Color Line and Attitudes toward Asian Americans: How Metropolitan Separation from White, Black, and Hispanic Neighbors Patterns Implicit and Explicit Bias. Under review
• Yoo, N., Park, M., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). Disaggregating the Model Minority Myth: how achievement and mobility beliefs shape cognitive and affective bias across racial and Asian American subgroups. Under review
• Nicholson, H., Yoo, N., Maglalang, D., Park, M., Chang, D.F., & Okazaki, S. (Under review). Associations Between Various Forms of COVID-19-Related Discrimination, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms among Black Americans. Under review
• Park, M., Yoo, N., Nicholson, H., Maglalang, D., Chang, D.F., & Okazaki, S. (Under review). Community Racial Composition and Asian–Black Solidarity: The Moderating Roles of Model Minority Stereotype and Shared Minority Ideology. Under review
• Chang, D.F., Yoo, N., Nicholson, H., Maglalang, D., Park, M., & Okazaki, S. (Under review). Conformists, Meritocrats, Resisters, and Defenders: Cross-Racial Solidarity, Anti-Blackness, and Mental Health Among Asian Americans. Under review
• Nicholson, H., Yoo, N., Chang, D.F., & Okazaki, S. (Under review). Unpacking the Relationship between Media Use, Perceived Threat, and Anti-Black Sentiment among Asian Americans. Under review

Well-being, migration, and service use

• Mannan, N., Monir, A., Mishra, S., Li, S., Yoo, N., & Ahmed, N. (2025). Community needs assessment for understanding the health and social needs for South Asian immigrant populations in Southeast Queens across levels of English proficiency. Journal of Community Health. doi.org/10.1007/s10900-025-01534-x
• Park, M., Jeong, E., Yoo, N., Choi, Y., Cabassa, L. J., Yasui, M., & Takeuchi, D. (2025). Mental health service use among Filipino American and Korean American young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Community Psychology. doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.70043
• Yoo, N. & Jang, S.H., (2025). Social and environmental determinants of secondhand smoke exposure and physical and mental health among immigrant-origin youths in Korea. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. 1-22. doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2025.2568482
• Yoo, N., Choi, Y. & Hong, Y., (2024). The unequal weight of COVID-19 pandemic: National trends in body mass index among Korean adolescents by immigrant-origin and gender from 2013 to 2022. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. 29(1), 2387070. doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2024.2387070
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (2024). Remittance as reactive transnationalism: The role of perceived unfairness among immigrants in South Korea. International Migration. 62(6), 18-44. doi.org/10.1111/imig.13302
• Yoo, N., Hong, Y., & Choi, Y. (2023). Immigrant-origin youths at risk: Trends in suicidal behaviors among Korean adolescents by immigrant origins and ethnic options (2011–2019). Journal of Affective Disorders. 321, 253-264. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.10.033
• Yoo, N., & Jang, S.H. (2023). Perceived household financial decline and physical/mental health among adolescents during the COVID-19 crisis: Focusing on gender differences. Preventive Medicine Reports. 32, 102119. doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102119
• Yoo, N., Kim, Y., & Moon, S. (Revised and Resubmitted). Linguistic Stratification, Mental Health, and Service Use among Refugees in South Korea: Evidence from a Multilingual Needs Assessment Survey. Under review
• Yoo, N., Lee, J., Min, S., & Kim, Y. (Under review). Material Hardship and Livelihood Coping Strategies among Refugees in South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Employment and Visa Status. Under review
• Yoo, N., Kim, Y., & Moon, S. (Under review). Mobilization and Demobilization: Discrimination, Visa Security, and Civic Participation among Refugees in South Korea. Under review
• Yoo, N., Choi, Y., Hong, Y., & Jang, S.H. (Under review). The burden of passing: phenotypic visibility, body image distortion, and anxiety among immigrant-origin youth in South Korea. Under review

The practitioners

Capacity-building and the development of interventions for culturally and linguistically appropriate services, with community organizations.

• Yoo, N., Khor, A., Mukhija, N., Adebiyi, A., & Zilka, M., (In Press). Guidelines for Whom? Rethinking AI Ethics in Resource-Constrained Migration Services. 2026 ACL Workshop on Evaluating AI in Practice.
• Yoo, N., Kang, M., Kim, E., Lee, S. Y., Woo, J., & Kim, S. Y. (2026). Korean American Church Leaders as Mental Health Gatekeepers in the United States: A Needs Assessment of Readiness, Barriers, and Referrals. Journal of Religion and Health. doi.org/10.1007/s10943-026-02589-3
• Yoo, N., Kang, M., Lee, S. Y., Na, J. Y., Woo, J., & Kim, S. Y. (2026). Effectiveness of a Virtual Mental Health Literacy Training for Korean American Church Leaders: Knowledge, Behavioral Intentions, and Confidence. Pastoral Psychology. doi.org/10.1007/s11089-026-01308-9
• Chang, D.F., Doucet, F., Whitney, J., Miao, I.Y., Yoo, N., Zwerger, N., Kaplan, J., Antoine, C., & Romano, L. (2026). Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a mindfulness-based critical consciousness training program for teachers. Mindfulness. doi.org/10.1007/s12671-026-02823-9
• Stanhope, V., Yoo, N., Matthews, L., Baslock, D., & Hu, Y. (2024). The impact of collaborative documentation on person-centered care: A textual analysis of clinical notes. JMIR Medical Informatics. 12, e52678. doi.org/10.2196/52678
• Yoo, N., Matthews, L., Baslock, D. & Stanhope, V., (2024). Impact of collaborative documentation on completeness and length of clinical notes in behavioral health settings. Psychiatric Services. 75(2), 186-190. doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20230118
• Yoo, N., & Kapten W.S., (2024). Applying to Graduate School: Tips and Strategies for BIPOC and International Students. In Chang, D.F. & Bryant L.L. (Eds.), Transformative Careers in Mental Health for Black, Indigenous and People of Color: Expert Strategies to Promote Healing and Social Change in Academia, Clinical Settings and Beyond. Routledge Publishing.
• Yoo, N., Wassall, K., Ashurst, C., & Zilka, M. (Under review). Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Social Work: An Ecological Analysis of Social Workers' Perspectives. Under review
• Yoo, N., Stanhope, V., Matthews, L., Hu, Y., & Fang, Y. (Under review). Who Writes Better Notes? Linguistic Comparison Between Human-Written and AI-Generated Clinical Notes. Under review
• Yoo, N., Saba, S., & Goldkind, L. (Under review). Teaching Note: Advancing AI Literacy in Continuing Education for Social Workers: Lessons from a Post-Master Certificate Program on AI and Mental Health. Under review

Methods, data, and field-building

Methods, datasets, and field-building that support the lab's work across these levels.

• Yoo, N., Ritchie, A., & Gwadz, M. (In Press). Training Computational Social Work Scientists: Lessons from Summer Institute of Computational Social Science. Journal of Social Work Education.
• Yoo, N., Mane, H., Zhao, A., Chen, J., Gandhi, A., Kwong, K., Nguyen, T., Okazaki, S., & Chang, D. F. (Revised and Resubmitted). Working with Annotator Disagreement in Community-Informed Labeling: The Case of Anti-Asian Bias Detection on Social Media. Under review
• Yoo, N., Jang, S.H., & Kim, D. H. (Under review). Analyzing Online Migration Forums: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing for International Migration Research. Under review
• Yoo, N., Hong, S., Ahn, E., Kane, J., & Grogan-Kaylor, A. (Under review). Individual Turn? Examining Ecological Perspectives in Machine Learning Applications in Social Work Research. Under review
• Yoo, N. Python Programming for Social Workers: NLP and Large Language Models in Research and Practice Book in progress