Dr. Maryam Hussain is a post-doctoral scholar in the Stress & Health Lab and Merced Experimental Social & Health Psychology (MESH) Lab. She earned her PhD from the University of Houston with a focus on Developmental & Learning Psychology and Statistics & Measurement. As part of her post-doctoral training with Dr. Zawadzki, she is examining changes in cardiometabolic functioning related to in-the-moment psychosocial stressors and positive social connections among Latino adults. With this training, Maryam hopes to do research as a health psychologist focused on the importance of sociocultural resiliency when considering morbidity. One fun fact about Maryam is that she was born in a small village in India, immigrated to the US at age 5, and is now a co-founder and stakeholder at a library and tutoring center in her birth village.