Dr Brian Hall will receive the Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Dr Brian Hall from the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), will receive the Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) in November. The ISTSS is an international organisation dedicated to research on psychological trauma and adversity. The Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award recognises excellence in science or research in the field of traumatic stress by an individual who has completed his or her training within the last five years. Dr Hall has been elected to serve on the ISTSS’s Board of Directors for a three-year term. Past award recipients are all leaders in the field of traumatic stress and public health, including Dr Cherie Armour from the University of Ulster; Dr Erika Wolf from Boston University and the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Dr Katie A McLaughlin from the University of Washington; Dr Robert H Pietrzak from Yale University; Dr Wietse A Tol from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Dr Ananda Amstadter from Virginia Commonwealth University; Dr Karestan Koenen from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; and Dr Mark van Ommeren from the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr Hall will attend the annual ISTSS conference to be held in Dallas, Texas, in November, and will give a speech on the use of technology in delivering mental health services to migrant populations, a project he is working on in collaboration with the WHO. As a clinical psychologist, an epidemiologist, and an expert on global public health, Dr Hall is currently involved in a collaborative multidisciplinary research project aimed to improve the health of the populace in the Greater China region, with an emphasis on the population in Macao, and the migrant communities in the Pearl River Delta region. To learn more about Dr. Hall’s research, please visit http://www.umac.mo/fss/psychology/staff_Brian.html.