Stress and health — ϲ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:45:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Brooks Gump /faculty-experts/brooks-gump/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:25:07 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=158400 Brooks Gump is the Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health in the Falk College at ϲ. A large gift to the University from alumni David B. and Rhonda S. Falk allowed for the created of a series of endowed professorships, of which Gump was awarded. These professorships allow the Falk College to support internationally recognized faculty to enhance the research, academic and experiential components of its programs to advance its mission rich in teaching, research, scholarship, practice and service.

Professor Gump’s specialties include psychosocial factors and their overall effect on health, and more recently, the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage, race, and environmental toxicants (e.g.,lead and mercury) on children and adolescents’ health. His teaching areas include introduction to epidemiology, introduction to psychology, health psychology, research methods/experimental psychology, health promotion, introductory and advanced statistics, behavioral medicine and psychophysiology.

Recognized internationally for his research on cardiovascular disease risk in children, Gump was awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences earlier this year for the project, “Environmental Toxicants, Race and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children.” The study investigates the relationship between race, socioeconomic status, blood lead levels, cardiovascular responses to acute stress and cardiovascular disease risk.

In addition to his ongoing NIH-supported research with children, Gump is currently principal investigator for a grant from the National Science Foundation Research Education for Undergraduate (REU) program, entitled, “Training Veterans to Conduct Trauma Research with Fellow Veterans.”

He serves on the editorial board of two prominent journals in his field,Psychosomatic Medicine, and Health Psychology, and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous other journals, including the American Journal of Epidemiology,Pediatrics,Stroke, and American Journal of Psychiatry. He is currently serving a four-year term as a member of the National Institute of Child Health and Development’s (NICHD’s) Health, Behavior, and Context Subcommittee.

]]> Bryce Hruska, Ph.D. /faculty-experts/bryce-hruska-ph-d/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:25:46 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=137121 Bryce Hruska, Ph.D. is an expert in the field of psychological stress. His research focuses on better understanding how stress “gets under the skin” to impact physical health with an emphasis on identifying the behavioral, biological, and psychosocial pathways through which stress operates to impact downstream health outcomes. The ultimate goal of this research is to inform public health policies and practices that can promote societal health and well-being.

To date, Dr. Hruska’s work has followed two main lines of interest: (1) traumatic event exposure and the identification of psychosocial and biological risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its co-occurring physical and mental health challenges; and (2) recovery experiences (e.g., vacationing) and their impact on the relationship between occupational stress and cardiovascular health.

Research conducted by Profs Bryce Hruska and Brooks Gump, Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health, was featured in several media outlets, including the New York Post story “”

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