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A growing body of research over the past decade has begun to tease out the ways the experience of geography and discrimination affect physiology and health. Neighborhood conditions, access to healthy food, the experience of race and class — such forces can influence everything from average lifespan to chronic disease rates to birth outcomes. At the same time, an emerging field of science is showing how these drivers of health are manifested down to the level of our DNA — high levels of chronic stress associated with discrimination, childhood adversity, or caregiving of an ill family member, for instance, are tied to shorter telomeres, a new measure of biological aging. To coin one prominent researcher, those experiencing such life stressors are “weathering” or aging faster than their actual biological age. In this webinar, we'll provide an overview of how our physical and social environments work upon our bodies, and the new science that helps us understand some of the links. The webinar will cover key insights from the research, explain its implications for public policy, and explore how this new understanding might change how we report on health, especially within minority and low-income communities.
WHEN: Oct. 9, from 11 a.m. to noon PT / 2-3 p.m. ET
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