Lecture Series – Health Psychology Program

Health Psychology Lecture Series Seminar

Winter 2026 Schedule

Winter 2026, Wednesdays 12-1pm, Pritzker 3572

01/07/2026	Health Psychology Faculty	Preparing for admissions – Health Psychology students only
01/14/2026	David Figueroa, MA Graduate Student in Health Psychology, UCLA Shiloh Cleveland, MA Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology, UCLA	Relationships Between Classism, Health Behaviors, and Hair Cortisol: A Multivariate Multilevel Analysis Early Life Adversity and Mitochondrial Function: Comparing Cumulative Risk and Dimensional Models of Adversity
01/21/2026	Eric Cortez, MS, MA Graduate Student in Health Psychology, UCLA Enya Daang, MA NIMH Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student in Health Psychology, UCLA	More Than a Buzz: Alcohol Use as a Link Between Discrimination and Anxiety in Sexual Minority Men Biopsychosocial Pathways to Pain in Breast Cancer Survivors
01/28/2026	Michael Irwin, MD Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, UCLA	Insomnia and Inflammation Conspire to Heighten Depression Risk with Impacts on Depression Prevention (presenting via Zoom)
02/04/2026	Christine Dunkel Schetter, PhD Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry; Director, NIMH Training Grant in Biobehavioral Issues in Mental and Physical Health, UCLA	Prenatal and Preconception Stress & Anxiety: Consequences for Women and Offspring
02/11/2026	Lauren N. Whitehurst, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University	Embedding inequality in the sleeping brain: NREM delta activity and the neurobiology of racialized stress (presenting via Zoom)
02/18/2026	Adolfo Cuevas, PhD Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, NYU School of Global Public Health; Co-Director, BioSocial Research Initiative	From Discrimination to Disease: The Role of Inflammation (presenting via Zoom)
02/25/2026	Alyson Zalta, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology, UCI	Morning Light Therapy as an Emerging Treatment for PTSD
03/04/2026	Janet Tomiyama, PhD Professor of Psychology, UCLA	Getting the most out of conferences
03/11/2026	SBSM conference	No seminar

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.