Christy Denckla

Christy A. Denckla is assistant professor of social and behavioral sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She leads the Population Wellness Lab, where her research group is unraveling the psychosocial, biological, and environmental factors that shape experiences of, and responses to, loss and trauma. Drawing on large, longitudinal, population-based cohorts, her team investigates mechanisms that shape psychopathology after trauma, focusing on bereavement across the lifecourse and how it impacts health and well-being. This work seeks to create a world where effective prevention and interventions at the population level support wellness from the cradle to the grave.