Yuhan Wei

Yuhan Wei is a PhD candidate in the Rutgers School of Social Work. She completed her BA in Social Work at Jilin University, China, and then studied at Peking University for her MSW degree. Broadly, Yuhan’s scholarship focuses on the adolescent development, with a special focus on racially/ethnically diverse adolescents. More specifically, Yuhan focuses on how individual-, family-, and community-level contextual characteristics affect adolescents’ educational attainment, behavioral health, and well-being. In her research she has explored how substance misuse affects adolescents’ higher education goals, and how factors in adolescents’ families and communities can offer protection.

Yuhan’s dissertation is titled, Disparities in Postsecondary Education Enrollment among Racial/Ethnic Minority Adolescents in the U.S. In this quantitative study, she uses a comprehensive framework to explore how individual-, family-, and school-level factors impact adolescents’ college enrollment choices. Yuhan has also published research about the validation of scales for racially/ethnically diverse adolescents, as well as about interventions for adolescents’ mental health. Yuhan has taught Program Evaluation in the Rutgers MSW program.