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Social Environment & Health

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Social Environment & Health (SEH), founded in 1962, is a leader in the development of theory and research on the role of psychosocial factors in the etiology and course of both mental and physical health and illness. SEH specializes in integrating knowledge from across multiple disciplines and using cutting-edge methods to characterize the social and environmental contexts in which people live their lives.

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Aging & Biopsychosocial Innovations

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Aging & Biopsychosocial Innovations (ABI) is a research program founded in 2019, which aims to understand how stress and social contexts affect health. ABI also examines the biophysical factors that account for these links, using a multidisciplinary research approach.

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Margaret Hicken

Margaret Takako Hicken

RESEARCH PROFESSOR, SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER, FACULTY ASSOCIATE, POPULATION...

Pamela Davis-Kean

Pamela Davis-Kean

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS,...

David Fresco

David Marc Fresco

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY, MEDICAL SCHOOL AND RESEARCH PROFESSOR, SURVEY...

Thomas Crossley

Thomas Fraser Crossley

RESEARCH PROFESSOR, SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

Christopher Stephen Monk

Christopher S Monk

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS,...

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