Nicole Bush: Social Exposures and Intergenerational Health: Maternal Exposure to Stress and Children’s Development

Key Takeaways:

• Childhood adversity and pregnancy stress can have lasting effects on children’s health and wellbeing.
• New research suggests intergenerational effects of maternal stress on child health outcomes and identified buffers in the child’s environment that may enhance their resilience to stress exposures.
• These findings highlight the importance of screening pregnant people for signs of stress and other mental health challenges and providing them with resources to reduce their stress and improve their mental health.
• Social support from the surrounding community can help families build resilience factors that protect children from the intergenerational effects of adversity and stress.

Speaker:

Nicole Bush, PhD

Center for Health and Community
Division of Developmental Medicine
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Bush is the Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health, and the Division Chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine, jointly appointed in the departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist, with fellowship training in stress biology, medicine, and epidemiology. She is an MPI of the ECHO PATHWAYS award (CANDLE, TIDES, and GAPPS cohorts) and a Center Director/Site PI for the NYU award (TIDES).

Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 1 to 2pm ET