David Huh

David Huh is a quantitative and clinical psychologist whose research focuses on advancing quantitative methodology in behavioral health intervention. His areas of research include alcohol use, chronic illness, suicide prevention, and culturally informed intervention with American Indian and Alaska Native communities and other underserved populations. An overarching goal of Dr. Huh’s research is making cutting-edge statistical methodology capable of more accurately evaluating health and social behavioral data more accessible to substantive researchers and non-statisticians.

Dr. Huh is presently the Director of the Methods Division at the University of Washington (UW) Indigenous Wellness Research Institute and a Licensed Psychologist in the State of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the UW in 2012 and completed his psychology residency at the UW School of Medicine and his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors.

Dr. Huh’s recent research has focused on developing more accessible statistical tools for evaluating health-related outcomes, as well as identifying the features of effective interventions for reducing problem alcohol and substance use, particularly approaches appropriate for resource-limited settings. Towards that end, he is currently developing new statistical approaches for more powerfully evaluating treatment effects in clinical trials, including meta-analysis using individual participant data that can evaluate treatment effectiveness and pathways of change with greater accuracy and precision than traditional meta-analysis.

A key emphasis of Dr. Huh’s program of research is increasing the accessibility of statistical approaches that can more powerfully and accurately assess behavioral health interventions and test theoretical models of health for both specific groups and broad populations.