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    Our research is focused on understanding psychosocial well-being and biobehavioural mechanisms underlying healthy aging.

  • Daily positive events promote health

    Our work demonstrates that daily positive experiences are associated with lower inflammation, adaptive cortisol profiles, and better health behaviours.

  • Positive experiences and stress processes

    We have found that maintaining positive emotions in the face of stress is important for health.


Welcome to the UPLIFT Health Lab website!

We are interested in Understanding Pathways Linking Inter- and Intraindividual Factors To Health.

Our areas of interest include:

  • Biological and behavioural mechanisms linking daily experiences to long-term health and aging
  • The roles of positive experiences in stress and coping processes
  • Day-to-day dynamics of psychosocial well-being, sleep, and health behaviours
  • Biopsychosocial determinants of risk and outcomes for cardiovascular disease

 

We acknowledge that our learning takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). We make this acknowledgement with the recognition that our relationships to land and place, the lifelong development of identity, and our understanding of our place in the world are essential to the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. To find out which Indigenous lands you live on, visit native-land.ca.

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Congratulations to our graduates! A huge congratulations to undergraduate RAs Kyra Gert, Alice Luan, Christina Felber, Kailey Farrell, and Dabeen Hyun on graduating! We are so proud, and cannot wait to see what you do next.
April 2025: Congratulations Zoe! Congrats to lab alumni Zoe Dong! Zoe has accepted an admissions offer from the Yale School of Public Health to study Chronic Disease Epidemiology.
April 2025: Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference Undergraduate students Taima and Kyra showcased their research at this year’s Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference. Taima presented a poster on the relationship between age-based unfair treatment and depressive symptoms, and Kyra shared a poster examining the role of loneliness in working memory function. Congratulations to Taima, who received the top poster award!
March 2025: Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine Annual Meeting At this year’s Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine conference, PhD student Nikki Stuart presented two posters—one on stressors and working memory performance, and another on subjective age and working memory—while PhD student Lydia Ong presented her work on self-perceptions of aging and daily events. Both were featured in the Citation Poster Session, a session […]
February 2025: Healthy Aging Research Day Undergraduate students Alice Luan and Taima Gheriani presented their research at the UBC Healthy Aging Research Day, hosted by the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging!
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The UPLIFT Health Lab at UBC is exploring how daily experiences contribute to emotional well-being and health among adults in our community. Please visit the Daily Experiences and Health website for more details.
Email: uplift[at]psych.ubc.ca
Phone: 604 827 2241
Location:
UPLIFT Health Lab
Kenny Building, Room 2102
2136 West Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
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UPLIFT Health Lab
Vancouver Campus
Kenny Building, Room 2102
2136 West Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Tel 604 827 2241
Website uplift.psych.ubc.ca
Email uplift [at] psych.ubc.ca
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