Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series: 2024 James S. Jackson Memorial Award Ceremony and Lecture

Overview

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is happy to announce that Anna Lau, Ph.D., has been chosen because the 2024 James S. Jackson Memorial Award winner. The NIMH James S. Jackson Memorial Award was established in 2021 to honor excellent researchers who’ve demonstrated distinctive achievement in minority psychological well being and psychological well being disparities analysis, group engagement, and mentorship. Join us on October 18 for Dr. Lau’s award ceremony and lecture. She’ll talk about her analysis program and profession trajectory inside the framework of psychological well being disparities and minority psychological well being.

About the awardee

Dr. Lau is a Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence within the Life Sciences. She is a school member within the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program and directs the Culture and Race/Ethnicity (CARE) in Youth Mental Health Lab. Dr. Lau trains college students in evidence-based remedy for youth and teaches programs in Asian American Mental Health and the Psychology of Diversity.

Racial inequities in youth psychological well being are longstanding and persistent. Amid an ongoing youth psychological well being disaster, disparities in unmet want are more likely to widen. Dr. Lau’s work spans companies analysis, translational and prevention analysis, and implementation science targeted on the wants of minoritized youth and the techniques serving them. It’s simple to doc care disparities and even to establish their drivers. But it’s the problem of our instances to seek out options to advance fairness. Together along with her analysis workforce, collaborators, and group companions, Dr. Lau seeks to leverage and adapt evidence-based improvements to cut back disparities in youth psychological well being in group settings, together with colleges.

Dr. Lau got here to this work as a first-generation scholar and daughter of immigrants, who was lucky to have trailblazing mentors who invested in her. She is indebted to the late Dr. Stanley Sue, Dr. David Takeuchi, Dr. John Weisz, and Dr. John Landsverk for their invaluable help. Dr. Lau is now additionally acknowledged for her dedication to mentoring, and her former college students are making their very own good impacts in constructing a extra inclusive area.

Dr. Lau has authored greater than 180 publications and her analysis is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from which she obtained a Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award in 2022. She is a Fellow of the Asian American Psychological Association and obtained their Distinguished Contributions to Research Award in 2017. Dr. Lau served as President of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology in 2022. The UCLA Academic Senate not too long ago awarded her the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Faculty Award for Career Commitment to Diversity. She is devoted to inclusive excellence in increased training and has served on the University of California Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools.

About the Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series

The Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series is designed for investigators conducting or taken with conducting analysis on psychological well being disparities, girls’s psychological well being, minority psychological well being, and rural psychological well being.

Registration

This webinar is free, however registration is required .