Research lead by Dr. Esteban Calvo, director of the Society and Health research Center, with regards to the effect of stress on salivary telomere length was awarded a very prestigious award at the Alpine Population Conference on January 21st. The article titled "Stress and salivary telomere length in the second half of life: A comparison of life-course models" was chosen for the "2019 Advances in Life Course Research Young Scholar Award". The authors of this work are as follows: Margaret Willis (Columbia University), Ursula Staudinger (Columbia University), Pam Factor-Litvak (Columbia University) and Esteban Calvo (Columbia University and Universidad Mayor). Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.02.001
Dr. Peña Neira has been ratified as judge in the national competitions of the Phillip C. Jessup Competition in 2020, mantaining this position since 2012 - ad honorem and representing the Society and Health Research Center and the Law school at Universidad Mayor (Chile).
Dr. Peña Neira was awarded the course "Derecho" at the military school Libertador Bernardo O`Higgins, for the next three years. He designed the course and its material
Dr. Peña Neira lead the section of public policy on the international report about soil biodiversity for World Food and Agriculture Organization. The draft-report was recently sent and is about the effect of climate change on soil biodiversity
Dra. Díaz-Valdés presented this past Friday and Saturday at the SSWR annual conference, about the cultural determinants of retirementi timing and the effect of retirement timing on health and well-being
Dr. Peña presented the contribution of international law to a new constitution regarding from an environmental perspective. the full column is in this link: https://www.diarioconstitucional.cl/articulos/aportes-del-derecho-internacional-publico-a-una-nueva-constitucion
Teresita Rocha studied her P.hD on public health at the Global Health Track in San Diego State Univeristy (USA)- University of California San Diego (USA). Previously she studied a master on Latin American studies (University of California San Diego, USA) and B.A on International Relationships at the Autonomous Technological Institute (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo, México). She is joining the center on January 15th, 2020.
Este verano CissLab acoge a tres pasantes internacionales que colaboran con la investigación de profesores del Ciss. María Amalia Lorenzo (Heidelberg , Chile-Alemania), Mauricio Marengo (Heidelberg , Chile-Alemania) y Pablo Varas (Instituto Max Plank, Alemania). Los dos primero se encontrarán trabajando con Dr. Sergio Peña, mientras que Pablo trabajará con Dr. Nicolás Montalva, ambos professores del CISS.
November marks one year since the international collaboration partnership was established between Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health (MPH) and Chilean institution Universidad Mayor’s Society and Health Research Center (CISS as per its initials in Spanish). Lead by Esteban Calvo, CISS director and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at MPH
Contribución del investigador y profesor Sergio Peña Neira al Medio Ambiente en la nueva constitución.
