Member ~ PMBC External Advisory Board Professor of Medical Psychology, Psychiatry, & Pediatrics Director, Health Psychology Program Vice-Chair, Department of Psychiatry Director, Center for Health and Community University of California, San Francisco Email: Nancy.Adler@ucsf.edu Phone: 415-476-7759 Fax: 415-476-7744 Assistant: Marilyn Vella 415-476-7285 Research Program Dr. Adler’s earlier research examined the utility of decision models for understanding health behaviors with particular focus on reproductive health.  Her recent work is examining the pathways from socioeconomic status (SES) to health.  As director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on SES and Health, she coordinates research spanning social, psychological and biological mechanisms by which SES influences health.  Within the network she has focused on the role of subjective social status in health.

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Website Addresses UCSF Department of Psychiatry Health Psychology, UCSF John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health Leadership Positions and Honors Member, Institute of Medicine Fellow, Division of Population and Environmental Psychology and Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association Fellow, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the American Psychological Society Superior Service Award, Division of Population and Environmental Psychology, American Psychological Association, 1990 Centennial Lecturer, Wellesley College, 1991 Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women, University of California, San Francisco, 1995  Invited Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1997 Director, SES and Health Research Network, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1997-2006 George Sarlo Prize for Excellence in Teaching; Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 2002 “National Associate of the National Academies,” National Academy of Sciences, 2002 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Health Psychology, Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2004 Member, Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health, 2004-2008 Representative Publications Adler NE, Snibbe AC: The role of psychosocial processes in explaining the gradient between socioeconomic status and health. Curr Directions Psychol Sci 12:119-123, 2003. Kopp M, Skrabski Á, Réthelyi J, Kawachi I, Adler NE: Self-rated health, subjective social status and middle-aged mortality in a changing society.  Behav Med 30:65-70, 2004. Goodman E, McEwen BS, Huang B, Dolan LM, Adler NE: Social inequalities in biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in adolescence. Psychosom Med 67:9-15, 2005. Singh-Manoux A, Marmot MG, Adler NE: Does subjective social status predict health and change in health status better than objective status? Psychosom Med 67:855-861, 2005. Adler NE: Overview of health disparities. In: GE Thompson, F Mitchell, M Williams (eds), Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health: Unfinished Business (pp 129-188). Washington: National Academic Press, 2006.

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