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
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 UniversityClinical 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
Eschliman EL, Choe K, Fei YC, Kang C, Koetje J, Harocopos A, Harris MN, DeWalt J, Christopher SA, Jackson VW, Yang LH (2024).
Evaluation of two videos that apply evidence-based strategies to increase self-efficacy and reduce opioid-related stigma among medical students
Academic Psychiatry, 48 (2), 123-134. doi: 10.1007/s40596-024-01945-3. PMCID: PMC10954387.
Evaluation of two videos that apply evidence-based strategies to increase self-efficacy and reduce opioid-related stigma among medical students
Academic Psychiatry, 48 (2), 123-134. doi: 10.1007/s40596-024-01945-3. PMCID: PMC10954387.
Patel K, Pokorski E, Norkoli D, Dunkel E, Wang X, Yang LH (2024).
Persistence of stigma and the cessation of substance use: Comparing stigma domains between those who currently use and those who no longer use substances
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1308616. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1308616. PMCID: PMC10800797.
Persistence of stigma and the cessation of substance use: Comparing stigma domains between those who currently use and those who no longer use substances
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1308616. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1308616. PMCID: PMC10800797.
Lieff SA, Mijanovich T, Yang L, Silver D (2024).
Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on mental health treatment among low-income adults across racial/ethnic subgroups, 2010-2017
Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 51 (1), 57-73. doi: 10.1007/s11414-023-09861-4.
Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on mental health treatment among low-income adults across racial/ethnic subgroups, 2010-2017
Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 51 (1), 57-73. doi: 10.1007/s11414-023-09861-4.
Becker TD, Eschliman EL, Thakrar AP, Yang LH (2023).
A conceptual framework for how structural changes in emerging acute substance use service models can reduce stigma of medications for opioid use disorder
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1184951. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1184951. PMCID: PMC10565357.
A conceptual framework for how structural changes in emerging acute substance use service models can reduce stigma of medications for opioid use disorder
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1184951. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1184951. PMCID: PMC10565357.
Purtle J, Moucheraud C, Yang LH, Shelley D (2023).
Four very basic ways to think about policy in implementation science
Implementation Science Communications, 1 (1), 111. doi: 10.1186/s43058-023-00497-1. PMCID: PMC10496363.
Dr. Yang's MyBibliography Profile
Four very basic ways to think about policy in implementation science
Implementation Science Communications, 1 (1), 111. doi: 10.1186/s43058-023-00497-1. PMCID: PMC10496363.
Selected Press