Alexander Tsai

Dr. Alexander Tsai is a board-certified staff psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital; associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and honorary lecturer at Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Mbarara, Uganda. His research aims to shed light on how large-scale social forces affect health and mental health in resource-limited settings, particularly among people living with HIV. Previously, Tsai was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar here at the Harvard Pop Center.

Medical Education

• M.D.; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Residency, UC San Francisco

Companies

• Psychiatrist Massachusetts General Hospital (2018)
• Associate Professor Harvard Medical School (2018)
• Assistant in Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital (2012 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School (2013 — 2018)
• Lecturer Harvard Medical School (2012 — 2013)
• Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar Harvard University (2010 — 2012)

Awards and honors

• 2009 Laughlin Fellowship, American College of Psychiatrists
• 2015 Excellence in Mentoring Award (Young Mentor Award), Harvard Medical School
• 2016 Exceptional Mentorship in Research Award, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
• 2021 American Society for Clinical Investigation
• 2022 Stephanie Robert Mentoring Award, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science