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Lawrence Yang
Lawrence H. Yang, PhD
NYU School of Global Public Health - Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Science
NYU School of Global Public Health - Director, Global Mental Health and Stigma Program
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University - Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Email: LY1067@nyu.edu
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Boston University
BA, Psychology, Wesleyan University
Research Interests
Stigma, Mental health, HIV, Opioids, Psychosis, Cognition
BIO
Lawrence Yang is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the NYU School of Global Public Health, where he directs the Global Mental Health and Stigma Program. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University. Dr. Yang’s research focuses on the social factors that influence course of schizophrenia. He currently is PI of a 5-year NIMH R01 grant examining the neurocognitive and social cognitive underpinnings of the new “clinical high risk state for psychosis” designation. Dr. Yang also is PI of an R01 examining cognition in the ‘natural state’ of psychosis in a large untreated, community sample of individuals with psychosis (n=400), who have not yet received any antipsychotic medications, compared with a treated sample (n=400) and healthy controls (n=400) in China. Dr. Yang is also PI of an R21 that seeks to reduce the stigma of HIV among newly-identified pregnant women in Botswana via a pilot randomized control trial. He has over one hundred publications, including publications in the British Journal of Psychiatry and The Lancet. He has received 8 early career awards, 6 of which are national, for his work.
Projects
Principal Investigator, RCT to Reduce Stigma and Improve Treatment Adherence in HIV+ Women in Botswana. Completed
Publications

Recent

Choi J, Feelemyer J, Choe K, Lynch K, McKnight C, Yang LH, Des Jarlais D, Chang VW (2025).
Anti-vaccine attitudes and COVID-19 vaccine status at the end of the U.S. public health emergency
Vaccine, 55, 127003. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127003.

Kirabira J, Nakigudde J, Huang KY, Ashaba S, Nambuya H, Tozan Y, Yang LH (2025).
Cultural adaptation of clinic-based pediatric HIV status disclosure intervention with task shifting in Eastern Uganda
AIDS Research and Therapy, 22 (1), 48. doi: 10.1186/s12981-025-00743-7. PMCID: PMC12008972.

Eschliman EL, Kisanga EP, Huang LJ, Poku OB, Genberg BL, German D, Murray SM, Yang LH, Kaufman MR (2024).
The use and operationalization of “structural stigma” in health-related research: A scoping review
BMC Public Health, 24 (1), 3614. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-21171-8. PMCID: PMC11684274.

Yang LH, Grivel MM, Blasco D, Girgis RR, Huang DB, Woodberry KA, Corcoran CM, Mcfarlane WR, Link BG (2024).
Parsing stigma’s relationship with the psychosocial functioning of youth identified as at clinical high risk for psychosis: Evaluating whether symptom stigma or labelling stigma is stronger
British Journal of Psychiatry [Epub 2024 Dec 4]. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2024.209.

Yang LH, Bass JK, Le PD, Singh R, Gurung D, Velasco PR, Grivel MM, Susser E, Cleland CM, Alvarado R, Kohrt BA, Bhana A (2024).
A case study of the development of a valid and pragmatic implementation science measure: The Barriers and Facilitators in Implementation of Task-Sharing Mental Health Interventions (BeFITS-MH) Measure
BMC Health Services Research, 24 (1), 1352. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11783-6. PMCID: PMC11539761.

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