Prof. Brian Hall

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 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.

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