Purpose

The overall purpose of this research program is to understand how stress and social contexts affect health and the biopsychosocial factors that account for those links. We seek to foster a multidisciplinary collaboration that capitalizes on advances in mobile technology and biopsychosocial methods to gain better understanding of social, psychological and biological factors influencing healthy aging.

Topics of Research

• Biological systems associated with stress and relationships
• Aging and the cardiovascular system
• Racial health disparities
• Stress and health of caregivers
• Aging and emotion in relationships
• Stress and implications for cardiovascular system
• Health and well-being in couples and families
• Daily stress and health
• Intensive longitudinal designs (ecological momentary assessments, daily diary)
• Using devices to assess biological systems