Keynote Speakers

Professor Mark L. Hatzenbuehler

Harvard University

Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard, where he directs the Biopsychosocial Effects of Stigma Lab. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Yale and completed his post-doctoral training in population health at Columbia, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar.

Dr. Hatzenbuehler’s work has been published in leading journals across multiple fields, including Nature Communications, Nature Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lancet Public Health, Annual Reviews of Public Health, JAMA Psychiatry, Psychological Bulletin, and American Psychologist.

He has received several awards for his work, including the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science, the Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Association, the Division 44 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology (formerly the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement) from the American Psychological Foundation. For the past 8 years, he has been named to the Highly Cited Researcher List by Clarivate Analytics in recognition of his research influence, as demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.

Dr. Hatzenbuehler is an elected fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the premier honorary organization for scientists working at the interface of behaviour and medicine, and he has been appointed to serve on two consensus committees at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

He was voted one of the favourite professors of the Harvard Class of 2023.