Join us either in person or on Zoom for our academic year-end Postdoc Flash Talks.

Presenters from the Center for Health and Community, Health Psychology, Osher Center, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics will each have five minutes and five slides to provide highlights of their research from this year. Names with asterisks (*) will appear via Zoom.

• Ruijia Chen, PhD — Racial and ethnic disparities in excess deaths from suicide, homicide, drug overdose, and transportation fatalities during Covid-19 in the United States
• Brian Don, PhD — Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How parents’ positive relational interactions influence children
• Darwin Guevarra, PhD — Emotional well-being and the immune system: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Elissa Hamlat, PhD — Distal and proximal maternal stress accelerates epigenetic aging of children
• Hio Wa Mak, PhD* — Within- and between-person associations of acute and chronic stress with blood pressure: An ecological momentary assessment study
• David Newman, PhD* — Stress reduction experiments in daily life: Scaling from the lab to the world
• Yoobin Park, PhD — Physiological reactivity to emotional violence and arousal in older versus younger adults
• Kristen Rudd, PhD* — The role of prenatal violence exposure in the development of disparities in young children’s adiposity from birth to middle childhood
• Chelsea Siwik, PhD — Preventing depression relapse: A qualitative study on the need for additional structured support following MBCT
• Agus Surachman, PhD — Grandparents’ educational attainment is associated with grandchildren’s DNA methylation age acceleration in the National Growth and Health Study (NGHS)