The SHIRE Lab is dedicated to exploring health, sickness, and immune function as social phenomena. Simply put, all health is social. How we were raised and taught, our past and current social circumstances, and our social network(s) all affect how we think about and enact sickness. These factors can "get under the skin" to influence our physiological responses to stress and infection and dictate who we come into contact with (and which pathogens we encounter). We take an evolutionary approach and use a variety of methods, including biomarker analyses, to address these questions. ​

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