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William Hall

Associate Professor
L. Richardson Preyer Early Career Scholar

William Hall, Ph.D.

Contact

Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building

Room 324-K

325 Pittsboro Street

Campus Box 3550

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

wjhall@email.unc.edu

O: 919-962-1698

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Dr. Will Hall is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). After receiving his Ph.D. in Social Work from UNC in 2015, he completed a NIMH-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Services Research through a collaborative program between the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. Dr. Hall’s research is primarily focused on understanding mental health disparities facing LGBTQ+ young people (e.g., depression and suicidality), as well as developing and evaluating interventions that address these problems. He is interested in interventions at multiple socio-ecological levels, such as mental health care with LGBTQ+ clients, cultural competency of mental health service providers, school-based interventions to improve the school climate, and policy interventions to protect the rights and well-being of LGBTQ+ people. Dr. Hall’s research has been informed by his clinical practice and advocacy work with the LGBTQ+ community.

Degrees

PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MSW, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Program(s)

Doctoral Education
MSW Education

Research and Professional Interests

Mental Health
Health Disparities and Equity
Social Policy
Youth Development
LGBTQ+ Issues

Courses

SOWO 570

Human Development in Context: Infancy through Adolescence

SOWO 501

Confronting Oppression and Institutional Discrimination

SOWO 709

Social Work with the LGBTQ Community

SOWO 914

Measurement in Intervention Research

SOWO 919

Systematic Reviews and Introduction to Meta-Analysis