The Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH) Penn State

The Biobehavioral Health Department is a part of the College of Health and Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University.

Biobehavioral Health (BB H) is an innovative interdisciplinary program that enables you to explore all factors—biological, behavioral, social/cultural, and environmental—that influence the health of individuals and groups through the life span.

Speaking in the Video (in order of appearance):
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Collins Airhihenbuwa, Ph.D. - Head of The Department of Biobehavioral Health, and Director of the Global Health and Culture Project

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Laura Cousino Klein, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Head of the Biomarker Core Lab, and the Biobehavioral Health Studies Laboratory

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Sheila West, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Director, Vascular Health Interventions Laboratory / Stress and Nutrition Research Program

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Lori Francis, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Family Research in Diverse Contexts, and Director of the Family and Child Health Project

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Orfeu Buxton, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health

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Rob Turrisi, Ph.D. - Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Prevention Research Center

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Gary King, Ph.D. - Professor of Biobehavioral Health

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Appearing in the Video:

Steven Branstetter, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, and Head of Smoking and Health Behavior Laboratory

Francisco A. "Alex" Montiel Ishino, Graduate Student in Biobehavioral Health in Bio-Qualitative Research Lab (BioQUAL) studying complex systems interactions between the environment and physiology on health outcomes, including the ambulatory collection of ecological context and developmental outcomes in early and later life.

Katherine Sauder - successfully defended her dissertation entitled: "Effect of Diet on Vascular Health in Type 2 Diabetes and Community-Dwelling Adults" on March 4, 2014. She will officially graduate with her Ph.D. in May 2014.

Kerry Lynott Hair - Researcher in the Biobehavioral Health Molecular Genetics Laboratory

Alisa Shink - Graduate Student in Genetics

Melissa Mercincavage - Graduate Student in the Biobehavioral Health Smoking and Health Behavior Laboratory studying nicotine addiction, smoking cessation, and drugs of abuse.

Gelareh Alam - Graduate Student in Biobehavioral Health studying neurogenotoxicology with a focus on paraquat (an herbicide broadly used in US).

Sulamunn Coleman - Graduate in the Biobehavioral Health Stress, Health, and Daily Experiences (SHADE), studying how personality traits (e.g., narcissism) influence physiological reactivity in response to a variety of social stressors (e.g., social interaction, rejection, evaluation)

Linda Wray, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Aging and Disease Management Researcher

Byron Jones, Ph.D. - Professor of Biobehavioral Health, and Pharmacogenetics Researcher

Jennifer Graham-Engeland, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Head of the Stress and Health Lab

Helen Kamens, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, and Head of the Behavioral Neurogenetics Lab

David Vandenbergh, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health; Neuroscience Faculty, The Neuroscience Institute, The Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, and Head of Biobehavioral Health Molecular Genetics Laboratory

Jessica Salas - Graduate Student in Biobehavioral Health, studying health promotion and prevention regarding women's sexual health.