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Team

Principal Investigator

 

Katie Darabos, PhD
Instructor of Public Health
Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy
Rutgers School of Public Health
Associate Member, Cancer Prevention and Control
Rutgers Cancer Institute
E-mail: katie.darabos@rutgers.edu
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/katiedarabos

More about Dr. Darabos

 

Research Assistants

 

Shannon Desbiens, B.A.
Research Assistant
Social Health Lab at Rutgers University

 

Research Interests
Shannon is interested in how social and ecological factors can shape daily fluctuations of health behavior engagement (e.g., physical activity, eating behaviors, substance use) among youth with mental illness. She seeks to understand how interactions with social media and the lived environment may drive elevated chronic disease and to identify modifiable risk factors unique to those with mental illness that may exacerbate disease risk using physiological and biological feedback. Shannon’s ultimate goal is to inform intervention development for youth mental illness populations by understanding the impact of health behaviors through physiological and biological outcomes derived from daily-level studies.

 

 

Sean McHugh, B.S.
Research Assistant
Social Health Lab at Rutgers University
Email: s.mchugh@rutgers.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmchugh

Research Interests
Sean is interested in how the biological (e.g., cortisol, immune response) and psychological (e.g., stress reactivity) processes of stress interact to influence emotion regulation in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer. He aims to identify risk pathways that contribute to stress and dysregulated emotional functioning, and to detect protective mechanisms that promote resilience and psychosocial quality of life in this population.