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Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Boston University
BA, Psychology, Wesleyan University

Stigma, Mental health, HIV, Opioids, Psychosis, Cognition

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.

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Breaking Barriers to Anti-Retroviral Treatment