Biosketch
Daisy Zavala, Ph.D., is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at the FSU College of Medicine. She earned her doctorate in the Social and Health Psychology program at Stony Brook University (SBU) in New York in May 2024 and her B.A. in Psychological Science in Spring 2019 at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM).
Her research program takes a life-span approach to understand how social (e.g., stress, discrimination, immigration) and biological (e.g., epigenetic age acceleration) factors affect health (e.g., emotional and cognitive health). As a recipient of the A.W. Burghadt Turner Graduate Fellowship, coordinated by the Center for Inclusive Education (CIE) at SBU, and the NIH Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) program at CSUSM, she is also passionate about recruiting underrepresented minorities to become involved in the research process -- both as participants in research studies and as future scientists helping launch studies.
Daisy Zavala, Ph.D., is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at the FSU College of Medicine. She earned her doctorate in the Social and Health Psychology program at Stony Brook University (SBU) in New York in May 2024 and her B.A. in Psychological Science in Spring 2019 at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM).
Her research program takes a life-span approach to understand how social (e.g., stress, discrimination, immigration) and biological (e.g., epigenetic age acceleration) factors affect health (e.g., emotional and cognitive health). As a recipient of the A.W. Burghadt Turner Graduate Fellowship, coordinated by the Center for Inclusive Education (CIE) at SBU, and the NIH Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) program at CSUSM, she is also passionate about recruiting underrepresented minorities to become involved in the research process -- both as participants in research studies and as future scientists helping launch studies.