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
