The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, draws upon the strengths of two campuses. The UC-San Francisco side of the program, based in the Center for Health and Community, offers the resources of an outstanding health sciences campus, with top-ranked schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy, as well as strong pre and post-doctoral programs. The UC-Berkeley side of the program, centered in the School of Public Health, utilizes the rich resources of a broad research-oriented arts and sciences campus.

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    Kaja LeWinn, ScD
    
    

    Understanding how the social environment is embodied at an early age: amygdala reactivity to threat-related stimuli as a function of social status

    Socioeconomic disadvantage is one of the most salient predictors of poor health. My program of research focuses on how socioeconomic position is biologically embodied with the goal of understanding how disparities in health take root in early life.  Though links between childhood SES and health are well documented, less is known about the neurobiological underpinnings of this relationship.
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• 2009-2010 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
  Deadline: October 2nd, 2009 more

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