Associate Professor Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program *I plan to interview applicants for Fall 2024 admission* Health and Development Lab Education Education: Postdoc, Northwestern University (2012 - 2015) Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park (2012) M.S., University of Maryland, College Park (2008) B.A., Washington & Lee University (2006) Research Research Interests: My research focuses on how children's social experiences shape their mental and physical health across the lifespan. My colleagues and I utilize a variety of research methods to evaluate social and emotional functioning, including structured behavioral observations, clinical interviews, self-reports, and performance-based tasks. In addition, we incorporate a number of health assessments, including clinical health measures and indices of cellular function. Ongoing research projects explore: Links between chronic and acute stress and children's antibody production following vaccination (supported by NIH New Innovator Award) Intergenerational transmission of health disparities (supported by NICHD and NIDA) Cognitive development, academic achievement, depression, and proinflammatory phenotypes in children (supported by Brain and Behavior Research Foundation and the Jacobs Foundation) Predictors of weathering and accelerated aging among rural African Americans (supported by NICHD) Selected Publications Selected Publications: Ehrlich, K. B., Miller, G. E., Shalowitz, M., Story, R., Levine, C., Williams, D., Le, V., & Chen, E. (2019). Secure base representations in children with asthma: Links with symptoms, family asthma management, and cytokine regulation. Child Development, 90, e718-e728. Ehrlich, K. B. (2019). Attachment and psychoneuroimmunology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 25, 96-100. Ehrlich, K. B., Chen, E., Yu, T., Miller, G. E., & Brody, G. H. (2019). Exposure to parental depression in adolescence and risk for metabolic syndrome in adulthood. Child Development, 90, 1272-1285. Ehrlich, K. B., Ross, K. M., Chen, E., & Miller, G. E. (2016). Testing the biological embedding hypothesis: Is early life adversity associated with a later proinflammatory phenotype? Development & Psychopathology, 28, 1273-1283. Ehrlich, K. B., Miller, G. E., Scheide, T., Baveja, S., Weiland, R., Galvin, J., Mehta, J., & Penedo, F. (2016). Pre-transplant emotional support is associated with longer survival after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 51, 1594-1598. Ehrlich, K. B., Richards, J., Lejuez, C. W., & Cassidy, J. (2016). When parents and adolescents disagree about disagreeing: Observed parent-adolescent communication predicts informant discrepancies. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26, 380-389. Ehrlich, K. B., Miller, G. E., Rohleder, N., & Adam, E. K. (2016). Trajectories of relationship stress and inflammatory processes in adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 28, 127-138. Other Information Other Affiliations: Center for Family Research Health and Development Lab
