Welcome to the Psychosocial Flourishing and Health Lab!

Our Lab’s Mission: Be part of a team that substantially improves the psychological and physical health of as many older adults as possible (across the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic spectrum), via rigorous research that informs the development of scalable individual-level interventions, and policies that drive systemic change in our society.

Our Lab’s Research: In pursuit of our overarching mission, our research aims to identify, understand, and intervene upon the dimensions of psychological well-being that reduce the risk of age-related conditions. We also aim to understand the influence that the social environment has on the connection between psychological well-being and physical health. In our work we integrate perspectives from health psychology, other areas of psychology (clinical, developmental, social, personality), gerontology, social epidemiology, biology, biostatistics, and translational science.

We would like to acknowledge that this lab resides on the unceeded, traditional ancestral territory of the Coast Salish, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.