The 2019-2020 CHBS Faculty Brown Bag Lecture Series kicks-off on 9/18 with a presentation by Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dr. Brooke Jenkins.  This year, we are pleased to extend invitations to our friends at Schmid, Pharmacy, and Engineering. Attendance is optional and everyone is welcomed to bring their lunch.

• Brooke will present in-person at the Rinker Health Campus in 95-104
• Her talk will be broadcast to the Orange campus, CB 118

About Dr. Jenkins:

Brooke Jenkins’ research program focuses on the intersection of stress, emotion, and health. She investigates how individual differences in emotion and emotion regulation affect health outcomes related to stress. She examines these processes across several different stress contexts in diverse populations, including children, adults with chronic illnesses, and individuals of minority backgrounds. Her work focuses on physiological and behavioral health outcomes such as recovery from surgery, pain, autonomic nervous system activity, sleep, and dietary adherence. Working both in the lab and natural environments, she uses a multi-method, theoretically-driven approach to solve health problems related to stress by applying rigorous study designs and advanced data analytic techniques, including multilevel modeling, spline growth curve modeling, survival analysis, and nonlinear methods. A unique aspect of her work is the development of methods to accurately measure the emotion and health outcomes that emerge during the stress process.  

Brooke has received the National Research Service Award through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as well as several other awards for her work. She has published several peer reviewed papers in her field of health psychology. She has also collaborated with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County to conduct her research.