Come hear four distinguished leaders in healthy aging research by Zoom! 

With aging, at a population based level, there is more resilience – an increase in positive emotions, and wisdom, and lower levels of stress and mental health problems. On the other hand, older people are more vulnerable to emerging mental health conditions that stem from chronic disease.  We will discuss the trends of aging, stress, emotional well being, and mental health, key biological processes, and the role of individual- and population-level well being interventions that promote resilience, and flourishing. 

Moderator: Elissa Epel, PhD, Chair of IG10, Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology, UCSF Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science

Talk: Laura Kubzansky, PhD, MPH, Professor, Harvard University School of Public Health: Aging with Well-Being: psychosocial assets, deficits, and implications for population level interventions

Talk: David Almeida, PhD, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State University: Stress and Aging: Mechanisms of resilience with aging 

Talk: Cheryl Woods Giscombe, PhD, RN,  Professor, Associate Dean, University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill,  Specific gendered racial risk and resilience factors for healthy aging in American Black women. 

Discussant: Linda Fried, MD, MPH, Dean of Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 

Register for livestream here: https://nam.edu/event/interest-group-sessions-nam-annual-meeting-2024/