Lawrence Yang, Ph.D.
Co-I
Professional Role: Distinguished Professor
Affiliation: Duke University, School of Nursing
Dr. Lawrence Yang is the Pauline Gratz Distinguished Professor of Nursing at Duke University School of Nursing. His work focuses on stigma as a multi-level determinant of health—spanning individual, clinical, and societal levels—through research, education, and training. Prior to joining Duke, Dr. Yang served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at NYU’s School of Global Public Health, where he also founded the Global Mental Health and Stigma Program, supported by the Li Ka Shing Foundation. Dr. Yang’s interdisciplinary training includes clinical psychology (Boston University), psychiatric epidemiology (Columbia University), and medical anthropology (Harvard University). He has received six national awards for his work on stigma, including the 2021 Maltz Prize for Innovative Schizophrenia Research. Dr. Yang has over 195 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals such as the JAMA, JAMA Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, and American Journal of Public Health Dr. Yang is currently PI or multiple PI on several NIH R01 grants, is mPI of a D43 Implementation Science Training Grant in Vietnam, and is a collaborator on several other R01-level grants. He previously served as a Standing Reviewer for the NIMH Mental Health Services Research Committee (SERV) (2020-2024). He is also pioneering research on “Migration Stigma,” having led (with Dr.’s Bruce Link and Maureen Eger) a think tank and conference sponsored by the Ernst Strüngmann Forum (see link). This work culminated in a book published by MIT Press and a related article in JAMA.