Lecture Series – Health Psychology Program

Health Psychology Lecture Series Seminar

Fall 2023 Schedule

Fall 2023, Wednesdays 12-1pm, Pritzker Hall Room 3571

10/4/23	Julienne E. Bower, PhD Professor and Health Area chair	Organizational meeting: Health Psychology area majors and minors and NIMH trainees only
10/11/23	Health Psychology faculty panel discussion Profs. Bower, Tomiyama, & Wilson	Making an impact in the world with your work: Examples, experiences, and hopes for the future
10/18/23	Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience Brigham Young University	Q&A with the lead science editor of the US Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community Recommend skimming the advisory in advance
10/25/23	Dana Rose Garfin, PhD Assistant Professor-in-Residence Community Health Sciences Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA	Adversity & Mental Health: Understanding Risk, Building Resilience Using a Community-engaged Approach
11/1/23	Gabrielle Rinne, MA, C.Phil Psychology, UCLA	Perinatal Influences on Infant and Child Biobehavioral Development
11/8/23	Professional development alumni panel Olajide Bamishigbin, SCAN Health Plan, JSI Alexandra Crosswell, Apple Josephine Menkin, Evernorth Arielle Radin, Bruin Health	Health psychology careers in industry/business/entrepreneurship Held on Zoom – meeting room link will be distributed in early November.
11/15/23	John Ruiz, PhD Professor, Clinical Health Psychology University of Arizona	Q&A with the editor-in-chief of Health Psychology and US Preventive Services Task Force member Skim USPSTF anxiety and depression screening recc’s for adults (anxiety, depression) and/or children (anxiety, depression) in advance
11/22/23	NO MEETING: Thanksgiving
11/29/23	Karen D. Lincoln, PhD, MSW Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, UC-Irvine	Racial Discrimination, Sleep Quality and Brain Health among Community-Dwelling Black Americans
12/6/23	Chanita Hughes Halbert, PhD Vice Chair for Research and Professor, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California	Title TBD

This interdisciplinary seminar is sponsored by the UCLA Health Psychology Program (Department of Psychology) and NIMH training grant #15750. 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 Theodore Robles at robles@psych.ucla.edu.