Interdisciplinary Research
Health After 2020: The Impact of Social Adversity on Cardiovascular Health and Aging
March 26, 2025, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
330PM to 500PM
Join us for a compelling session on how social adversity—emotional stress, loneliness, financial insecurity, and childhood hardship, may accelerate cardiovascular (CV) aging and disease. This interdisciplinary study leverages research on free-living primates to uncover biological mechanisms linking social stress to CV health.
Why Attend?
With an aging population, CV disease is an increasing health and economic burden. While many causes are well known, studying the independent effects of social adversity on CV health in humans is challenging due to various confounders (e.g., diet, pollution, inactivity). However, research on primates—who share similar biology and structured communities—provides valuable insights. This session will explore findings from a new collaboration with the Caribbean Primate Research Centre, integrating social ecology, genomics, and immunology.
About Health After 2020
This session is part of the Health After 2020 program at UBC Health. Health After 2020 enables researchers to engage in interdisciplinary and cross-institutional projects that support, challenge, and improve health producing systems. These collaborations are intended to respond to the broad effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and further our understanding of the determinants and experience of health and wellbeing.