Lisa Christian

About

Lisa Christian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University. She is an affiliated faculty member at the Institute for Population Research. Her professional contact information includes her office at 060 Townshend Hall, Ohio State University, and her email address is christian.109@osu.edu. Her research focus is related to health and mortality, and she is involved in academic and research activities within her department and the institute.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Developmental psychology
• Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Clinical psychology
• Biology
• Social psychology
• Obstetrics
• Immunology

Selected publications

• Immune and Epigenetic Pathways Linking Childhood Adversity and Health Across the Lifespan

  Frontiers in Psychology · 2021 · 72 citations

  Childhood adversity is associated with a host of mental and physical health problems across the lifespan. Individuals who have experienced childhood adversity (e.g., child abuse and neglect, family conflict, poor parent/child relationships, low socioeconomic status or extreme poverty) are at a greater risk for morbidity and premature mortality than those not exposed to childhood adversity. Several mechanisms likely contribute to the relationship between childhood adversity and health across the…

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• A biopsychosocial framework for understanding sexual and gender minority health: A call for action

  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2021 · 60 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Understanding the health effects of caregiving stress: New directions in molecular aging

  Ageing Research Reviews · 2023-10-27 · 33 citations

  reviewOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Longitudinal changes in HRV across pregnancy and postpartum: Effect of negative partner relationship qualities

  Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021 · 19 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Perceived social support predicts self-reported and objective health and health behaviors among pregnant women

  Journal of Behavioral Medicine · 2022-04-21 · 17 citations

  articleOpen access
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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R21HD061644

  NIH · $402k · 2012

• NIH Grant R21HD067670

  NIH · $419k · 2014

Frequent coauthors

• Jeremy L. Neal

  Vanderbilt University

  260 shared

• Pamela J. Salsberry

  The Ohio State University

  260 shared

• Donna O. McCarthy

  Marquette University

  257 shared

• Laura A. Szalacha

  University of South Florida

  257 shared

• Ronald Glaser

  81 shared

• Shannon L. Gillespie

  The Ohio State University

  76 shared

• Kyle Porter

  63 shared

• Amanda M. Mitchell

  University of Louisville

  50 shared

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• Amy Ferketichh-49
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