Children’s & Women’s Health
UCSF Center for Health & Community
Dr. Nicole Bush’s research focuses on the role that early-life psychosocial environments play in the health and disease trajectories across the lifespan. Investigating the ways in which contextual experiences of adversity become biologically embedded, changing children’s developing physiologic systems and shaping the development and mental health in childhood and later life, allows us to imagine interventions that can ameliorate social determinants of health inequity. Dr. Bush’s leadership in the lab is leading to discoveries that are urgently needed in society.