Laura M. Glynn, PhD

I am Professor of Psychology and Faculty Fellow in the Office of Research at Chapman University in Orange, California. I also maintain a second appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine. My research focuses on the interface of psychology and biology within the context of reproduction. Specifically, my interests include: the role of psychological and biological stress in adverse birth phenotype (preterm birth and restricted fetal growth), the way in which reproductive history shapes women’s health and development, and the role of prenatal and early life experience in fetal, child and adolescent development. I have relevant knowledge and expertise to offer as a Project Leader for this Project 2 in the following ways: First, because of my involvement as a PI or Co-I in nine NIH-funded longitudinal studies of mothers and their offspring, I have extensive experience in designing and conducting longitudinal studies of mothers and children. Second, as Co-Leader of Project 2, in the current funding period, I oversaw the recruitment and assessment of a new prenatal longitudinal cohort of 250 women followed for 18 months in my lab at Chapman University. These are the mother-child pairs whom we propose to follow into early childhood in this Center continuation.