Chapman University announced today the opening of a new research center focusing on biopsychosocial approaches to health, called the Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences Center of Excellence in Biopsychosocial Approaches to Health.
It’s the first “center of excellence” in Chapman’s two-year-old Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, and is located on the main campus in Orange. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding health and well-being, according to the school. Chapman calls it a “center of excellence” since it’s an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research and support for a specific area of focus.
“The unifying focus of [the center] is to examine the combined effects of biology, psychology and social context on psychological and physical health,” said Janeen Hill, founding dean of the Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences.
The center is committed to research that advances basic science and has implications for public policy. It plans to making findings from its research available to the public to help improve general understanding of health and science.
The center will be formally inaugurated with a lecture by Dr. Ted Robles of UCLA on October 24. Robles’ talk will focus on understanding how stress and social relationships influence health.
