Her research is in the general area of ethnic minority and immigrant family adjustment, parenting, and the delivery of evidence-based family interventions to immigrant families. Dr. Lau’s earlier research documented mental health disparities and service use disparities among ethnic minority and immigrant youth and families. Her intervention research has focused on empirically driven adaptations of parent training interventions with Chinese immigrant families. She is a fellow of the NIMH funded Implementation Research Institute and she is currently working to develop and evaluate strategies to bring underserved immigrant families into care and increasing provider use of evidence based practices in school based mental health services.