Sustainability, Peace, and Justice: Steve Ugbah at TEDxHayward

Working with colleagues at Stanford's CCARE, and at other institutions, Dr. Dhabhar has become keenly interested in how stress-reduction interventions can have beneficial effects. He believes that activities/interventions (e.g. compassion training, meditation, exercise, art) that reduce "bad" stress are likely to increase the effectiveness of protective "good" stress, facilitate prosocial behaviors, and perhaps also Peace Innovation. Among Dhabhar's honors are the Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award (for outstanding dissertation selected internationally); the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Young Investigator Award (for outstanding contributions in basic and clinical research); and the Richter Award (for excellence in the field of Psychoneuroendocrinology). Dhabhar loves teaching and working with undergraduate and graduate students in the classroom and laboratory. He also enjoys interacting with diverse audiences and has made numerous national and international presentations on different facets of his laboratory's research.

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