The Hawkins Lab had a strong showing at the 2026 Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (SBSM) Annual Meeting in Chicago this March.
Dr. Marquis Hawkins was the first speaker in a Featured Symposium on Thursday, March 12th: “The Uneven Storm: Structural and Psychosocial Modifiers of Perinatal Behavioral Health and Outcomes.” The session brought together researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, California State University Long Beach, and more to examine how structural and psychosocial factors shape perinatal behavioral health. Dr. Hawkins opened the session by framing how intersecting stressors — including racism, discrimination, food insecurity, and chronic stress — shape perinatal health through biological, behavioral, and community pathways.
Dr. Hawkins also was a planner/sub-committee member of the conference’s Great Debate on Saturday, March 14th, which tackled the question of whether biobehavioral health research should prioritize phase III clinical trials or shift toward implementation science.
PhD student Namhyun Kim’s research poster, “Trajectories of Multidimensional Sleep Health from Pregnancy to Postpartum and Their Associations with Postpartum Weight Retention,” was presented after being selected for the 2026 SBSM Scholar Award, recognizing her abstract as one of the top student and trainee submissions to the meeting. You can read more about that in our earlier announcement.
Congratulations to Dr. Hawkins and Namhyun Kim on representing the lab at this year’s meeting!
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