Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Talk summary: Engaging in healthy lifestyles is pivotal for improving individual and public health. However, people are not always behaving rationally in maintaining or improving their health. Therefore, promoting behavior change is one of the major strategies for improving public health. In this talk, Dr. Ning Zhang will introduce recent progress in the interdisciplinary research on applying behavioural sciences to improving public health through promoting health behaviour change, share research and practices in China, and discuss the future directions for moving the field forward.

Speaker: Ning Zhang, PhD, is the One-Hundred Talents Program Researcher from the School of Public Health and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. He received his PhD training in social psychology and is now working in the interdisciplinary area of behavioural sciences and public health, focusing on the application of behavioural and social sciences to improving public health. He published his research Annual Review of Psychology, Emotion, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Health Psychology, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, and Behavioral Science & Policy, among others. He also serves on the editorial board of Personality and Social Psychology Review, Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing, Global Health Research and Policy.

Registration is required for this event as we will provide sandwiches for those who attend in person. Please register here.