M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP Lecture Series

Laura Kubzansky, MPH, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Aging with Well-Being: Considering Psychosocial Pathways”

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Dr. Laura Kubzansky is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Kubzansky has published extensively on the role of psychological and social factors in health. Other research projects and interests include a) biological mechanisms linking emotions, social relationships, and health; b) relationships between early childhood environments, resilience, and healthy aging; c) the role of emotional well-being in individual and societal health, and c) how psychosocial stress or assets may interact with toxic environmental exposures (e.g., lead, air pollution) to influence health. She is a fellow in several professional associations, has served as an expert advisor to numerous panels at foundations and health agencies, and is a principal investigator or co-investigator on a wide variety of grants.

In Recognition of Heart Health Month

Kenneth E. Freedland, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
“Treatment of Depression in Patients with Heart Disease”
February 27, 2025 | 12:30 PM | WebEx

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Dr. Freedland is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Most of his research has focused on depression in patients with heart failure or coronary heart disease. He has also conducted studies of other psychiatric comorbidities, behavioral problems such as poor self-care, and social determinants of health in patients with heart failure. He has been the principal investigator or a co-investigator on both single-site and multicenter trials of interventions for depression in cardiac patients and has served on clinical trial review committees for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He also has expertise in behavioral trial methodology. Dr. Freedland is the founder of the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Cardiovascular Disease Special Interest Group and of the Behavioral Medicine Research Council, and a fellow of multiple organizations including the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He was the Program Director of the annual NIH Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials from 2020 to 2024. He has been a member of the Summer Institute faculty since 2007 and the faculty of the NIH-funded ORBIT Institute on Developing Behavioral Treatments to Improve Health since 2022. He has also served as an Associate Editor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Health Psychology.

Overview:

The InCHIP NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp provides UConn faculty and students interested in writing an NIH grant (R-, K-, or F-series) with an introduction to the NIH grant writing process through a one-day, in person workshop followed by an optional intensive mentored training program.

• One-day in person workshop provides an introduction to the NIH and core strategies for building a successful NIH grant application. The workshop will be delivered by highly accomplished NIH-funded PIs.
  
  
• Post-workshop optional mentored training program will be delivered virtually, in small groups over several months and led by NIH-funded PIs. The post-workshop training is intended for individuals actively writing an NIH grant. The training will provide participants with ongoing structure, accountability, and iterative feedback on their proposals throughout the grant writing process.

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