As a trained clinical psychologist and NIH K99/R00 funded Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the School of Public Health at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Ivan H.C. Wu, Ph.D. has experience as both a practitioner and researcher. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at the New Mexico VA Health Care System in Albuquerque, and received a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Clinical Psychology. In graduate school, he studied psychosocial mental health risk (e.g., racial discrimination, sexual harassment, mental health stigma) and protective factors (e.g., counseling use, mindfulness) among racial/ethnic minorities. As a postdoc in the Department of Health Disparities Research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, he continued this line of research within a cancer prevention and control context examining environmental, interpersonal, and lifestyle (e.g., sleep, physical activity) predictors of health among racial/ethnic minority community members and cancer survivors.