Edith Chen is a scientist known for researching the psychosocial and biological pathways that explain relationships between low socioeconomic status and physical health outcomes in childhood.
[1] Chen was awarded the 2015 George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology for the article “Psychological stress in childhood and susceptibility to the chronic diseases of aging: Moving toward a model of behavioral and biological mechanisms” alongside authors Gregory E. Miller, and Karen J.
[6] Chen's research is centered around understanding the psychosocial and biological contributors to socioeconomic inequalities in health outcomes in children.
One key area of work has been around resilience, that is, the factors that contribute to positive health outcomes among children who grow up under adversity.
Overall her findings explore and explain why low income socioeconomic status is associated with poorer physical health not only in childhood but throughout adulthood as well, and the factors that can mitigate these outcomes.