Dr Andrian Liem, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department\nof Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, recruited under the UM Macao Talent\nProgramme, has published an article on the mental health of migrant workers in Lancet Psychiatry<\/i>, a renowned\ninternational medical journal (Q1, 2\/142; JIF 18.369).<\/p>
The article highlights the needs of migrant workers\nduring the pandemic. Since its online publication in February this year, the\narticle has been cited many times and has been covered by the South China Morning Post<\/i> and World\nEconomic Forum. Dr Liem also co-leads a longitudinal study in Greater China (Macao,\nHong Kong, and Taiwan) to study the health and wellbeing of international\nmigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. The preliminary findings from this work\nhas been included by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a high-level UN policy\nbriefing to advocate for a multilateral international mental health action plan\nin May.<\/p>
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Dr Liem graduated from the School of Psychology at the\nUniversity of Queensland (which is ranked the 23rd<\/sup> in the world in\nthe subject of psychology). He joined UM\u2019s Department of Psychology in\nSeptember last year to work with Prof Brian Hall and the UM Global and\nCommunity Mental Health Research Group on research related to migrant health in\nthe Greater Bay Area of China. Dr Liem was selected as a fellow under the\nEmerging Psychologists\u2019 Programme, a prestigious and competitive fellowship, at\nthe International Congress of Psychology 2020, organised by the International\nUnion of Psychological Science. <\/p> Source: Faculty of Social Sciences<\/p> Media Contact Information:Communications Office, University of Macau<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Albee Lei Tel\uff1a(853) 88228004Kelvin U Tel\uff1a(853) 88224322Email\uff1aprs.media@um.edu.moUM Website\uff1awww.um.edu.mo<\/p> <\/p>\n \n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr Andrian Liem, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, recruited under the UM Macao Talent Programme, has published an article on the mental health…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n