Laura Chyu

Laura Chyu is an Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco and serves as Program Director for the Master of Public Health. Her research examines how social stressors and childhood experiences shape women's health trajectories using biodemographic approaches.

Key research areas include embodiment of chronic stress, allostatic load in midlife women, and health disparities across racial/ethnic groups. Her work integrates biological markers with longitudinal survey data to study life course health dynamics.

Publications demonstrate methodological innovation in studying stress-adversity interactions across the life span. Recent work focuses on mindfulness interventions in underserved communities and epigenetic correlates of early adversity.

She mentors students in health disparities research and contributes to curriculum development in public health education.