Prof. Brian J. Hall

Professor Brian J. Hall, PhD

Welcome to our Research group website. I am the director of the Global Community Mental Health Research Group and Full Professor of Global Public Health, NYU Shanghai; Associated Professor, NYU School of Global Public Health. I directed the Global and Community Mental Health Research Group at the University of Macau for nearly 7 years, and I hope you will be inspired to join us in our mission to improve community health and wellbeing in China and beyond.

I obtained my PhD in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis in clinical health psychology, in the Department of Psychological Science, at Kent State University. I worked in hospital-based clinical placements throughout my doctoral training, including at Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago, Illinois.

I completed my clinical internship as a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) T32 predoctoral fellow in traumatic stress, within the Charleston Consortium Internship Program, and the National Crime Victims Center, of the Medical University of South Carolina.

I gained specialization in epidemiological methods and public health during a two-year NIMH T32 Fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology, in the Department of Mental Health, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I was determined to pursue an overseas career in global health, and in 2013, I moved my life and work to China through a National Institute of Health Fogarty Global Health Fellowship (UMJT Consortium), hosted by the University of North Carolina Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Sun Yat-sen University School of Public Health. Through this fellowship, I began my career as a global health researcher in China, and have embarked on community-based research to improve the health and well-being of the diverse communities that live here. I have served as a consultant for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNAIDS, and government offices and NGOs in China.

Since 2014, I’ve been an Associate Faculty member (non-tenure track), in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

Current research areas:

• Migrant health
• Population health
• Trauma and adversity
• Scalable interventions

 

• Social and Psychiatric Epidemiology
• HIV and sexually transmitted infections
• Culture and health
• Technology misuse and behavioral addiction

Editorial positions

• Associate Editor, Anxiety, Stress, and Coping
• Associate Editor, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Mental Health
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychology: Health Psychology

Editorial Board Member

• Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
• Journal of Anxiety Disorders
• Psychological Trauma: Theory Research Practice and Policy
• European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Society Membership and Leadership

Association of Pacific Rim Universities in Global Health

• 2019 – present    Co-Chair, Working Group on Migrant Health
• 2019 – present    Member, Working Group on Mental Health

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)

• 2016 – present    Member, Board of Directors (2016 – 2019)
• 2011 – present    Co-Chair, Research Methods Special Interest Group
• 2014 – present    Member

Asian Pacific Psychology Alliance (APPA)

• 2019 – present    Treasurer, Member of Executive Committee

American Public Health Association 

• 2011 – present    Member

American Psychological Association

• 2007 – present    Member, APA Division 12: Society for Clinical Psychology
• 2017 – present     Member, The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
• 2016 – present     Member, APA Division 27: Society for Community Research and Action
• 2016 – present     Member, APA Division 38: Division of Health Psychology
• 2016 – present     Member, APA Division 45: Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, & Race
• 2016 – present     Member, APA Division 52: Division of International Psychology
• 2019 – present     Member, Div 56 International Committee
• 2009 – present    Member, APA Division 56: Division of Trauma Psychology
• 2014 – present     Member, European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)

Asian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTSS)

• 2014 – present    Member

Hong Kong Society of Behavioral Health

• 2014 – present    Founding Member

Honors

• 2019     Elected as Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Div. 52).
• 2019     [中国科学院国际人才计划“国际访问学] Presidential Fellowship for Foreign Talents, Chinese Academy of Science, Key State Laboratory in Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China
• 2018     Distinguished Alumni Lecture: 50th Anniversary of the PhD Program in the Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University
• 2017     Global Mental Health Fellow (Inaugural) of the World Health Organization

Awards

• 2019     Faculty Excellence in Advising Award, Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• 2017     Early Career Award, Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR)
• 2017     Emerging Scholar Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Macao (SAR), China
• 2016     Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
• 2016     Award for Outstanding Contribution to Trauma Psychology by an Early Career Psychologist, Trauma Psychology, APA Division 56
• 2016     Theodore Blau Early Career Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology, Society of Clinical Psychology, APA Division 12
• 2016     Early Career Psychologist Award, International Psychology, APA Division 52
• 2016     Young Investigator Award: Applied Science, International Union of Psychological Science