Irene Wong, PhD
Associate Professor
3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building,
Room D14
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
215.898.5505 (phone);
215.573.2099 (fax)
iwong@sp2.upenn.edu
In the past five years, Dr. Wong has been principal investigator and co-investigator of three federally funded research projects covering the areas of mental health, housing and homelessness. Her research focuses on community integration of persons with serious mental illness and factors associated with residential instability among homeless mentally ill persons in permanent supportive housing.
- Through her research, Dr. Wong has established a long-standing and effective collaborative relationship with professionals in the mental health services system in Philadelphia.
- Dr. Wong is a member of the UPenn Collaborative, a five-year Rehabilitation Research & Training Center (RRTC) promoting community integration of individuals with psychiatric disabilities. The Collaborative is an RRTC project funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research with the goal of leading the field in bringing community integration research into practice.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf) | Research