Brian Hall

Brian J. Hall is a Professor of Global Public Health and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Health Equity at NYU Shanghai, Associated Full Professor at the School of Global Public Health, New York University, and an Associate Faculty Member in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Hall has served as a technical advisor and academic expert for the World Health Organization (on climate change, mental health, and migration units), UNICEF, UNAIDS, and collaborated with iNGOs to improve the health of diverse populations. Hall led the first community collaborative mixed-methods study of transnational Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers, examining the social determinants of sexual, cardiometabolic, social, and mental health. Hall worked with the WHO on the framework for mental health in the Western Pacific Region, serving as an advisor on digital mental health. He is also a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission for Mental Health in China. Hall co-developed the Cultural Sections of the ICD-11 Neurological and Psychiatric Conditions and updated and expanded the Cultural material in the DSM-5-TR as a member of the DSM Working group on Culture. His team is currently developing the WHO regional research agenda for migration and health in the Western Pacific. Hall specialized 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. In 2013 he moved full-time to conduct migrant health research in China through a Fogarty Global Health Fellowship. In 2017 Hall was the inaugural Global Mental Health Fellow of the World Health Organization, and in 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (D52: International & D12: Clinical). Hall’s dedication to global health mentoring was recognized by a Faculty Excellence in Advising Award, from the Center for Global Health, at the Johns Hopkins, also in 2019. Hall has co-authored more than 350 journal articles, chapters, and other publications, is a highly cited researcher (1% globally, Clarivate Web of Science), received over $3million in funding, and seven career awards, including the Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award, ISTSS, and the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. He was inducted into Delta Omega Honorary Society for Public Health in 2022.