Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program
Workgroup on families, communities, and health
Workgroup on families, communities, and health
The goal of this workgroup is provide a forum where faculty from different disciplines (i.e., sociology, genetic, psychology, health communication, and methodology) can collaborate on external funding applications and research papers that use DNA methylation, biomarkers, and longitudinal data to test models examining the link between family and community socio-psychological factors and health outcomes (i.e., epigenetic aging, methylation biomarkers of health behaviors, gene expression of inflammation). Figure 1 summarizes the conceptual model for our workgroup study. Our workgroup will meet once a month to discuss and share ideas. In addition, each semester we will invite a distinguished scholar from outside UGA to share their work and to collaborate on our work. This proposal seeks funding to invite a distinguished scholar (e.g., Steven Horvath, Levine Morgan) and to support team-building activities (e.g., group website development and part-time student support).
Team Lead
Man-Kit Lei
Department of Sociology
karlo@uga.edu
Co-Lead
Steven S. R. Beach
Department of Psychology
srhbeach@uga.edu
Team Members
Kaixiong Ye
Department of Genetics
Ronald Simons
Department of Sociology
Justin Lavner
Department of Psychology
Jiaying Liu
Department of Communication Studies
Mei Ling Ong
Center for Family Research