Biography

Chris Dunkel Schetter is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at UCLA. Her research spans many areas of maternal and child health, with a particular focus on stress, anxiety and depression in mothers during pregnancy and birth, and related maternal and child outcomes. Dr. Dunkel Schetter has been a figure in research on social support for 40 years with seminal papers and recent work arguing for the necessity of intervention work. She is passionate about EngageWell efforts to improve how we engage individually and as a community on campus, and about how we can embrace equity, diversity, and inclusion in our relationships.