Healthy Aging Seminar Series

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June 18: Healthy Hearts, Healthy Lives: Social Connection and Heart Health
This talk will review the science of social connections and survival, the gaps in heart disease research on social connections, and the current results of new studies on which social connections affect the risk factors of heart health in both women and men in mid to later life.
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A former CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow (2014) and Gates Cambridge Scholar (2011), Dr. Annalijn Conklin is an associate professor at UBC and leads a program of social epidemiology and metabolic outcomes research (SEMOR) to support healthy aging and reduce heart health inequities in women in Canada. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, Conklin examines how broader social determinants, such as social ties or job loss, impact cardiovascular risk factors differentially for women and men.