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Edith Chen was raised in Miami. She became a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of socioeconomic status and physical health outcomes in children. Her main interests are studying people in low socioeconomic status an health outcomes. She has also worked on some publication, most notably her publications connecting socioeconomic status to general health, wellbeing, education and financial future.

Biography
Dr. Chen received a B.A. in history of science from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed a clinical internship at Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic. She then did a post-doctoral fellowship in health psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. After she graduated, she worked at Washington university as an assistant professor, but then in 2003 she started working in the University of British Columbia as a professor.

In 2012, Dr. Chen moved to Northwestern University, where she is now the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Psychology and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. Research and awards

Professor Chen’s research seeks to understand how poverty is associated with poor physical health outcomes in children, with focus on the psychological and biological mechanisms that are associated with these relationships. She is also interested in questions of resilience—that is, why some children who come from adversity manage to thrive and maintain good profiles of health.

Award's
Professor Chen has received multiple honors including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Healthy Psychology, the Young Investigator's Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine, along with the Donald K. Early Career Award from the Society of Pediatric Psychology.

Research
Dr. Chen is known for her meticulous study of how people in low socioeconomic status and how that status can come with certain physical conditions and disparities in health.


 * 1) Effect's of family psychosocial intervention, families with good parenting suffered less from metabolic syndromes. people with good family relationships are less at risk of obesity.

2. Links between socioeconomics and children's asthma outcomes, they found that children of people with low childhood economic status will suffer from worse Asthma conditions than those with high status.

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Representative Publications
Chen, E., Miller, G. E., Yu, T., & Brody, G. H. (2018). Unsupportive parenting moderates the effects of family psychosocial intervention on metabolic syndrome in African American youth. International Journal of Obesity, 42(4), 634.

Chen, E., Brody, G. H., & Miller, G. E. (2017). Childhood close family relationships and health. American Psychologist, 72(6), 555.

Brody, G. H., Yu, T., Miller, G. E., & Chen, E. (2016). Resilience in adolescence, health, and psychosocial outcomes. Pediatrics, e20161042.

Chen, E., Shalowitz, M. U., Story, R. E., Ehrlich, K. B., Manczak, E. M., Ham, P. J., ... & Miller, G. E. (2017). Parents' childhood socioeconomic circumstances are associated with their children's asthma outcomes. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 140(3), 828-835.