Stress and Health Equity Lab, Dr. Heather Farmer

The Stress and Health Equity Lab is focused on exploring how stress exposure and stress-related physiological mechanisms (e.g., inflammation) contribute to health and health inequities. We use large secondary data from the Health and Retirement Study to understand how psychosocial stress affects health, and the ways that people cope with health as they grow older.

We also incorporate an intersectional lens to understand within-group heterogeneity in older Black adults, which allows us to better understand the risk and protective factors associated with the aging experience among Black adults.