InCHIP Lecture Series, Fall 2016
“Maternal Stress and Anxiety Before Birth: Consequences and Mechanisms”
Chris Dunkel-Schetter, PhD, UCLA
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
UConn Allied Health Sciences
UConn Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
UConn Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
UConn Department of Communication
UConn Department of Economics
UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies
UConn Global Affairs
UConn Neag School of Education
UConn Occupational and Environmental Medicine
UConn Office of Public Engagement
UConn School of Business
UConn School of Medicine
UConn School of Social Work
UConn Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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 – here.
About the Speaker
Chris Dunkel Schetter is a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Vice Chancellor of Faculty Development at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley. She is the Director of a long-standing NIMH training program for pre and postdoctoral scholars in Biobehavioral Issues in Mental and Physical Health, and was the founding Chair of Health Psychology. Her broad research expertise is in stress, coping and social support in a variety of health and mental health contexts. Her primary program of research is on stress processes in pregnancy. In this work, Prof. Dunkel Schetter and collaborators examine various aspects of prenatal maternal stress and affect (depression, anxiety) and their contributions to preterm birth (PTB) and low birthweight, as well as infant and child developmental outcomes. This program of research involves prospective longitudinal studies of thousands of pregnant women of diverse ethnicities and socioeconomic status (SES) including low-income and Latina and African American women, with emphasis on race/ethnicity, culture and health disparities. She was CoPrincipal Investigator for an NICHD-funded research network (Community Child Health Network; CCHN) that applied community collaborative research methods to study SES and ethnic/racial disparities in maternal and child health in five sites across the country, focusing on mothers and fathers during the two years after a birth and maternal allostatic load. A follow-up study examines interpregnancy intervals (preconception processes) as predictors of later birth and child outcomes. In the past five years, her group has also contributed to research on postpartum depression. She is collaborating now in a study of inflammatory mechanisms linking affective disorders to birth and child outcomes, and in translating her work into interventions to reduce PTB and LBW and perinatal and postpartum distress.
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