Dr Brian Hall will receive three awards from the American Psychological Association
Dr Brian Hall from the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), will receive three Early Career Awards from the American Psychological Association (APA) in August. The awards recognise psychological scientists in the early stages of their careers who have attained outstanding achievements or made outstanding contributions to professional clinical psychology, trauma psychology, or international psychology, respectively. The three awards are the Theodore Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology, the 2016 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Trauma Psychology by an Early Career Psychologist, and the 2016 Early Career Psychologist Award for International Psychology. They are awarded by the Division 12, Division 56, and Division 52 of the APA, respectively. Dr Hall will receive these awards at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention this August in Denver, Colorado, the United States. Dr Hall has also been appointed a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology, which is the flagship journal of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. This open access SSCI journal has an impact factor of 2.3. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders (impact factor 2.38), and Psychological Trauma: Theory Research Practice and Policy (impact factor 1.57), in addition to routinely serving as an ad hoc reviewer for other leading journals in the fields of public health and psychiatry, including Lancet Psychiatry, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, American Journal of Epidemiology, and Social Science and Medicine. 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.