Dr. Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland
Email: jeg32@psu.edu
Twitter: @Graham_Engeland
Biography
Dr. Jennifer Graham-Engeland is a Professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH). She joined the Biobehavioral Health faculty in 2006. Her PhD is in Social/Health Psychology from Stony Brook University and she completed postdoctoral work in psychoneuroimmunology at The Ohio State University. She is currently the Professor-in-Charge of the Graduate Program in BBH. Dr. Graham-Engeland is a PI on multiple NIH grants and collaborates on multiple others, and is currently on the editorial boards of the journals Annals of Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology Review. She also recently completed a 4-year term as a standing member of the NIH study section “Social Psychology, Personality, and Interpersonal Processes” (SPIP).
Dr. Graham-Engeland has been invited to present her work at numerous forums worldwide, and has chaired several symposiums at international conferences, such as the American Psychosomatic Society and the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society. Dr. Graham-Engeland is a dedicated instructor and mentor as well. She has taught multiple courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Gender and Health, Integrative Integration in Biobehavioral Health, and Professional Development.
In her research, Dr. Graham-Engeland investigates the impact of psychological stress on physical health and the psychological, physiological, and behavioral mechanisms underlying stress and health connections. She emphasizes the impact of cognitive and emotional responses to stress (e.g., rumination, meaning-making, anger) and their potential as targets for non-pharmacological intervention. Specific topics of her research program include: 1) adaptive consequences of recognizing and expressing negative emotion; 2) how emotion, depressed mood, inflammation, and physical pain are bi-directionally connected; 3) the use of immune-related biomarkers (particularly inflammatory markers) as outcomes or mediators of stress and health phenomena, and 4) the relevance of situational forces (e.g., relationship dynamics, discrimination) and individual differences (e.g., hostility, loneliness, gender) on stress and health connections.
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