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Dr. Jennifer E. Khoury is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (Tier II) at Mount Saint Vincent University. She holds adjunct appointments at Dalhousie University's Psychology and Psychiatry departments. Her work focuses on early life stress impacts on parent-child dynamics using neurobiological and behavioral methods. She leads the Developmental Psychopathology and Resilience (DPR) Research Centre.
Dr. Khoury's education includes a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Ryerson University, 2017), postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School (2019) and McMaster University (2020). Her research examines how adversity like childhood maltreatment affects brain development and stress regulation across generations. Major studies include longitudinal analyses of pandemic-related mental health, cortisol biomarkers, and intervention efficacy.
Her work is funded by SSHRC, CIHR, and the Canada Research Chairs Program. Key contributions include meta-analyses on hair cortisol and maltreatment, neuroimaging studies of infant brain structure, and pandemic mental health tracking. She collaborates with Dalhousie on clinical neuroscience projects and mentors graduate students through co-supervision arrangements.
Awards include the prestigious Canada Research Chair designation. Her lab emphasizes translational research linking biological stress responses to developmental outcomes, with applied focus on clinical interventions to mitigate adverse effects of early adversity. Current projects investigate intergenerational trauma mechanisms and pandemic impacts on perinatal health.
