Lecture Series – Health Psychology Program

Health Psychology Lecture Series Seminar

Fall 2025 Schedule

Fall 2025, Wednesdays 12-1pm, Pritzker 3572

10/1/25	Health Psychology Faculty	Organizational meeting and welcome for Health Psychology graduate students and post-docs
10/8/25	Ilan Meyer, PhD Distinguished Senior Scholar for Public Policy, UCLA School of Law; Adjunct Professor in Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health	Minority Stress and Health of LGBT Populations: Research Evidence and Future Challenges
10/15/25	Annette Stanton, PhD Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA	Project SOAR (Speaking Our African American Realities) for Black American Women with Breast Cancer
10/22/25	Iris Ka-Yi Chat, PhD NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, UCLA	Inflammatory and Reward-Related Affective Processes: Neuroimmune Mechanisms in Mood Psychopathology
10/29/25	Bridget Callaghan, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology, UCLA	Building Brains and Bodies: Early Life Experiences as a Foundation for Lifespan Health
11/5/25	Cameron Wiley, PhD Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	Finding the Light in the Dark: A Positive Psychophysiological Approach to Health Disparities (presenting via Zoom)
11/12/25	Charles Taylor, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UC San Diego	Amplifying Positivity to Combat Social Disconnection (presenting via Zoom)
11/19/25	Daniel Rosenfeld, PhD Psychologist and Author	Thinking on Your Feet: Train to Survive Q&A Without Panic
11/26/25	Thanksgiving	No Seminar
12/3/25	Sahib Khalsa, MD, PhD Associate Professor in Residence, Director of Healthy Hearts Behavioral Medicine Program, Director of Anxiety Disorders Research, West Innovation Chair, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA	TBD

This interdisciplinary seminar is sponsored by the UCLA Health Psychology Program (Department of Psychology) and NIMH training grant T32 MH15750. Interested persons are encouraged to attend any or all of these sessions. The seminar is also offered for two credits per quarter as Psychology 219: Health Psychology Lecture Series. For additional information, please contact Professor Julie Bower at jbower@psych.ucla.edu.