Kubzansky Research Group
Dr. Laura Kubzansky is professor of social and behavioral sciences and director of the Society and Health Laboratory at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a sitting faculty member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and served as a founding director of both the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program and the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at Harvard Chan School.
Phone
617-432-3589
Location
677 Huntington Avenue
Kresge Building, Room 603
Boston, MA 02115
About
| Dr. Laura Kubzansky received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and her MPH from Harvard Chan School, where she also completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in social epidemiology. Dr. Laura Kubzansky is professor of social and behavioral sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an affiliated faculty member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She served as a founding director of both the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program at Harvard Chan School and the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness. With over 375 publications, she has published extensively on the role of psychological and social factors in health, with a focus on stress and positive psychological assets (including emotional well-being) in relation to cardiovascular disease. She also conducts research on whether stress, emotion, and other psychological factors are pathways underlying social disparities in health. Other lines of research include: (a) biological mechanisms linking emotions, social relationships, and health; (b) relationships among early childhood environments, resilience, and healthy aging; (c) how psychosocial stress or assets interact with toxic environmental exposures (e.g., air pollution) to influence health; (d) the role of work conditions in fostering worker well-being and identifying workplace policies and practices that enable workers to be healthy. Dr. Kubzansky has worked with numerous graduate students and postdoctoral research fellows 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. Dr. Kubzansky has served as an expert advisor to numerous panels at foundations, health agencies, and the government, as an advisor for multiple centers and training programs. She is a principal or co-investigator on a wide variety of grants funded through the Veterans Administration, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Institutes of Health, among others. |