His research focuses on several key areas of psychiatric epidemiology, including how culture relates to stigma and implementing interventions to improve social and symptomatic recovery for different stigmatizing conditions (mental illness and HIV), with a focus on psychosis in Chinese groups; the neurocognitive and social cognitive underpinnings of the new “clinical high-risk state for psychosis” designation; the clinical and cognitive characteristics of untreated psychosis in China; and barriers and facilitators involved in scale-up of mental health interventions for psychosis in Latin America. Dr. Yang’s work has been recognized with eight Early Career