HEALTH DETERMINANTS OVERVIEW

Health Determinants moves beyond medicine and medical research, pushing at the edges of several disciplines and alternative and complementary approaches, in order to connect and interweave the physical, psychological and social determinants of health in a broad range of fields ranging from genetics to psychology and public policy.

Some of the questions to be addressed within this program area will be related to such topical and multi-disciplinary subjects as risk and regulation in a post-genome world, addiction, infertility, obesity, and mitigating the effects of poverty on human health around the world.

Another important aspect of Health Determinants will be the growing body of research in several disciplines in the area of mind-body interactions, which explores several important open questions, including the study of the effects of emotions on health, the placebo effect, sleep research and the mechanisms which influence human learning.