Brian J. Hall is a tenured Full Professor of Global Public Health and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Health Equity at NYU Shanghai, and an Associated Faculty Member in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Professor Hall earned his PhD in Clinical Health Psychology from Kent State University and completed his clinical internship at the Medical University of South Carolina as a NIMH T32 predoctoral traumatic stress fellow. He specialized in epidemiological methods, public mental health, and Global Mental Health during a two-year NIMH T32 Fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology in the Department of Mental Health, at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH).
In 2013 he moved full-time to China to focus on infectious disease epidemiology and migrant health through a Fogarty Global Health Fellowship, hosted by the Center for Migrant Health Policy, Sun Yat-sen University School of Public Health and the University of North Carolina Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease.