On Wednesday, December 6th, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, join us for the third installment in the Center's Loneliness and Well-being Seminar Series, with guest speaker Dr. Koichiro Shiba. Accumulating evidence has demonstrated the health effects of social isolation and loneliness, suggesting that population-level efforts to promote social connectedness can be a promising approach to advance public health. However, this body of evidence is mostly based on…

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On Wednesday November 1st, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, join us for the second installment in our Loneliness and Well-being Seminar Series, with guest speaker Dr. Louise Hawkley. Dr. Hawkley is a Principal Research Scientist at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), an affiliate organization of the University of Chicago. She is a co-investigator on the National Institute on Aging (NIA)- funded panel study, the National Social…

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On Wednesday, October 11th, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or virtually, please join us in welcoming Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad for the first event in our Fall 2023 Loneliness and Well-being Seminar Series. Decades of evidence across multiple scientific disciplines have accumulated pointing to widespread health impacts associated with social connection, or lack thereof. Despite this evidence, social connection has been widely assumed to be a personal issue primarily associated…

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