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Viktoryia Kalesnikava conducts research on the influence of various social factors (i.e., socioeconomic status, life transitions, social & physical environment, etc.) on the physical and mental health across the lifespan. Her dissertation research examined how stress contributes to widening health disparities in cardiometabolic health, especially in relation to differences by SES and ethnic origin. This work integrated insights from leading stress theories and tested the relations between self-reported stress measures and stress biomarkers within uniquely positioned epidemiologic sources of data.