Dr. Hammad S. N’cho, Executive Director and Founder of the N’cho Behavioral Group, is a Licensed Psychologist with extensive experience in addressing such concerns as depression, anxiety, impaired self-worth, relationship challenges, trauma exposure, and PTSD. As a culturally-responsive psychologist, Dr. N’cho focuses on the critical role that individual identity (such as racial, ethnic, gender identity, or sexual identity) can play in overall well-being. Dr. N’cho served as a behavioral scientist in the elite Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he deployed internationally with outbreak rapid response teams. Dr. N’cho also served in the Medical Service Corps of the United States Navy, where he completed a clinical psychology residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, was appointed assistant division officer of the navy’s largest trauma treatment clinic, and served on the navy’s disaster response team.
Dr. N’cho is an award-winning lecturer and has taught courses on African American psychology, gender justice, cross-cultural psychology, interpersonal relations, and public policy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. N’cho is a graduate of Morehouse College, completed master’s level training in clinical psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and behavioral economics at Columbia University, Cornell University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, respectively, and completed his doctoral training in counseling psychology at Boston College.
Past Speaking Engagement Topics
- Webinar: Trauma-Informed Services for Credit Union Employees
https://filene.org/blog/trauma-informed-services-for-credit-union-employees - Protecting your mental health at work
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/protecting-mental-health-work/ - Cross-cultural trauma-informed mental healthcare
- Mental health access and utilization within the African American community
- Masculinity and mental health
- Military/veteran culture and mental health access
- War, community violence and trauma
- Social justice and mental health
- Marriage and mental health within minority communities
- Behavioral science in global disaster response
- The role of qualitative analysis in the public policy making process
Publications
Trauma-Informed Services for Credit Union Employees, Part 1, 2021
https://filene.org/learn-something/reports/trauma-informed-services-for-credit-union-employees-part-1
Trauma-Informed Services for Credit Union Employees, Part 2, 2021
https://filene.org/learn-something/reports/trauma-informed-services-for-credit-union-employees-part-2
Trauma-Informed Strategies to Support Credit Union Employees During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020
https://filene.org/blog/trauma-informed-strategies-to-support-credit-union-employees-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
Notes from the Field: Typhoid Fever Outbreak — Harare, Zimbabwe, October 2017–February 2018
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6802a5.htm
Cholera Epidemic — Lusaka, Zambia, October 2017–May 2018
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6719a5.htm
CDC Yellow Book 2020, Chapter 4 Travel-Related Infectious Diseases – Cholera
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cdc-yellow-book-2020-9780190065973?cc=us&lang=en&
Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among Black American Men: Moderated-Mediation Effects of Ethnicity and Self-Esteem
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08964289.2016.1150804
Black English
http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/counseling/n330.xml
Negotiating Invisibility: A Case Study of African American Men in a Therapeutic Support Group
https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:104135/datastream/PDF/view
Translating Trauma: Assessing the Diagnosis and Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Reactions in Sub-Saharan Africa
https://books.google.com/books/about/Translating_Trauma.html?id=yJX_oQEACAAJ
Consensual qualitative research analysis of a therapeutic support group session for African American men
https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2014-45198-001