Purpose in Life and Its Association to Parkinsonism.
Koga HK, Grodstein F, Williams DR, Buchman AS, Kubzansky LD.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2024 May 01. 79(5). PMID: 38430551
Dr. Laura Kubzansky is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Society and Health Laboratory at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She also serves as co-Director of the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program and is a sitting faculty member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Dr. Kubzansky received her Ph.D. (social psychology) from the University of Michigan, and completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship in social epidemiology as well as obtained her M.P.H. at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Kubzansky has published extensively on the role of psychological and social factors in health, with a particular focus on the effects of stress and emotion on heart disease. She also conducts research on whether stress, emotion and other psychological factors help to explain the relationship between social status and health. Other research projects and interests include a) studying the biological mechanisms linking emotions, social relationships, and health; b) relationships between early childhood environments, resilience, and healthy aging, and; c) how interactions between psychosocial stress and environmental exposures (e.g., lead, air pollution) may influence health.
Dr. Kubzansky has advised numerous masters, doctoral and postdoctoral students as a mentor, academic advisor and dissertation committee member. She is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. She has served as Senior Advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson funded Positive Health Research program, as a member of the Healthy People 2020 Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being Workgroup, and of the American Heart Association, Science of Well-Being Expert Panel. She is PI or co-investigator on a wide variety of grants funded through the Veterans Administration, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, EPA, NIH and others.
Koga HK, Grodstein F, Williams DR, Buchman AS, Kubzansky LD.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2024 May 01. 79(5). PMID: 38430551
Scoglio AAJ, Choi KW, Nishimi K, Sampson L, Koenen K, Roberts AL, Jha S, Kubzansky LD.
Psychosom Med. 2024 Mar 25. PMID: 38573019
Koga HK, Grodstein F, Williams DR, Manson JE, Tindle HA, Shadyab AH, Michael YL, Saquib N, Naughton MJ, Guimond AJ, Kubzansky LD.
JAMA Psychiatry. 2024 Mar 20. PMID: 38506825
Qureshi F, Guimond AJ, Delaney S, Boehm JK, Kubzansky LD.
J Adolesc Health. 2024 Mar 15. PMID: 38493401
Bratman GN, Mehta A, Olvera-Alvarez H, Spink KM, Levy C, White MP, Kubzansky LD, Gross JJ.
Cogn Emot. 2024 Feb 16. 1-20. PMID: 38362747
Guimond AJ, Ke S, Tworoger SS, Huang T, Chan AT, Kubzansky LD, Liu YY.
Psychosom Med. 2024 Jan 15. PMID: 38345311
Huang T, Zhu Y, Shutta KH, Balasubramanian R, Zeleznik OA, Rexrode KM, Clish CB, Sun Q, Hu FB, Kubzansky LD, Hankinson SE.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2023 Dec 13. PMID: 38092374
Boehm JK, Qureshi F, Kubzansky LD.
J Adolesc Health. 2024 Apr. 74(4):713-719. PMID: 38099898
Kubzansky LD, Epel ES, Davidson RJ.
Nat Hum Behav. 2023 Dec. 7(12):2051-2053. PMID: 37857873
Kubzansky LD, Epel ES, Davidson RJ.
Nat Hum Behav. 2023 Dec. 7(12):2228. PMID: 37945810
An optimistic attitude may help women slow age-related physical decline.
Laura Kubzansky, professor of social and behavioral sciences, argues that prosociality is a critical, but underappreciated, factor affecting population health—and that public health researchers and practitioners should invest more resources to better understand it.
A new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Chan School investigated the relationship between PTSD, diet, and the gut microbiome, and found that participants who adhered to a Mediterranean diet experienced decreased PTSD symptoms.
Long-term exposure to air pollution may lead to higher risk of depression later in life, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.
Researchers affiliated with the Work and Well-Being Initiative served as advisors for a new Surgeon General’s Framework on workplace mental health and well-being.