Graduate School Profile
Mark Hatzenbuehler
Mark Hatzenbuehler (Psychology) has won two awards from the American Public Health Association: the Walter J. Lear Award for his paper titled “State-level discrimination policies: Environmental risk factors for psychiatric morbidity in LGB populations” and the Kenneth Lutterman Award for another paper titled “Impact of discriminatory laws on psychopathology in LGB populations: A prospective study.” Using epidemiologic data to examine whether social policies targeting lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (e.g., failure to provide protections against hate crimes, constitutional amendments banning gay marriage) have an impact on mental health, Mark found that LGB individuals living in states with policies that do not confer protections to gays and lesbians have higher rates of psychiatric disorders than those living in states with protective policies. His dissertation advisors are Susan Nolen-Hoeksema and Jack Dovidio.
