Nancy E. Adler | |
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Alma mater |
Wellesley College Harvard University |
Known for |
Health behavior Social determinants of health |
Awards | 2013 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award David Rall Medal from the National Academy of Medicine |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Health psychology |
Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
Thesis | Reactions of women to therapeutic abortion: a social psychological analysis (1974) |
Nancy Elinor Adler is an American health psychologist and the Lisa and John Pritzker Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the director of UCSF's Center for Health and Community, and has been the director of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health since it was founded in December 1996. She is known for her research on health behaviors and social determinants of health.
Adler is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the American Psychological Association (APA), as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). She received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the APS in 2013, and the David Rall Medal from the NAM in 2010. She received the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology in 2009. She has also chaired multiple NAM committees and workshops on subjects including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill,sexually transmitted diseases, psychosocial treatments for cancer patients, and women's health.