CHIP Lecture Series, Spring 2015
“Racism as a Carcinogen: Risk, Resilience, and Genetic Sensitivity”
Rick Gibbons, PhD, University of Connecticut
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, UConn
Center for Public Health and Health Policy, UConn Health
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, UConn
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, UConn
Location
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture -- or archived after the lecture -- at http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-02-05-15.
About the Speaker
Dr. Gibbons is a health-social psychologist. He studies psychosocial factors related to health status and health behavior. A primary focus in this area has been the effects of perceived racial discrimination on the health behavior (e.g., substance use, risky sexual behavior) of African Americans. He is a PI on the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS), the largest panel study of African American families in the US. He conducts survey and experimental work; the latter involving lab explorations of the effects of discrimination and social exclusion on health risk. The survey work examines environmental factors affecting health behavior, as well as Gene x Environment (GxE) effects on health. He has also been involved in several interventions and preventive-interventions (e.g., The Strong African American Families [SAAF] program; and the Iowa - San Diego UV protection project). He also conducts research (lab and survey) based on the Prototype-Willingness model, which is a dual-processing model of health decision-making, mostly among adolescents. Finally, he studies psychosocial factors related to cancer risk behaviors (smoking, UV exposure, risky sexual behavior).
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