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Health and Well-Being

Description

What are the keys to better sleep? How can “healthy design” enhance our lives? What are the latest breakthroughs in the fight against COVID-19?

Join postdoctoral fellow Eti Ben Simon and faculty members Renee Chow and Sarah Stanley for a wide-ranging discussion on the many issues that affect our wellness — day and night, inside and out. 

Dates and Locations

Virtual

Sept. 16, 2020
via Zoom

Featuring

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Eti Ben Simon

Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology

Eti Ben Simon’s work explores the social and emotional consequences of sleep loss on the human brain and body. Using functional MRI and electrical brain recordings, she examines the neural processes that underlie emotional dysregulation following lack of sleep, and t…

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Renee Chow

Chair, Department of Architecture
Professor, Architecture and Urban Design

Professor Chow’s practice and research both focus on the intersection between architecture and its locale. She has developed analytic and generative design tools for integrating urban and architectural systems across sites a…

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Sarah Stanley

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Public Health
Associate Professor, Immunology and Pathogenesis, Molecular and Cell Biology

Sarah is a founding member of the Alliance for Global Health and Science and serves as scientific advisor. In addition to her in-depth expertise in in…

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