Viktoryia Alexandrovna Kalesnikava
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BIO
Viktoryia Kalesnikava is a Research Investigator with the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) at the Institute for Social Research and a research staff in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health.
Her research explores how social and physical environments shape psychosocial and physical health outcomes across the lifespan. She investigates care coordination, caregiving, and self-management of chronic diseases, with a focus on neurocognitive conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and cardiometabolic conditions like diabetes. She is also interested in the role of physical exercise and other non-pharmaceutical interventions on enhancing resilience and social connectedness among older adults. Another key aspect of her work involves identifying risk and protective factors for suicide to develop culturally tailored prevention strategies. Her approach integrates perspectives from health disparities and implementation science. Additionally, she is concerned with the methodological challenges of selection and measurement in observational research, which are essential for advancing our understanding of how social factors influence health outcomes
- Kara Zivin, Chuwen Zhong, Alejandro Rodríguez-Putnam, Emma Spring, Qingyi Cai, Alyson Miller, Lily Johns, Viktoryia Alexandrovna Kalesnikava, Anna Courant, Briana Mezuk. 2024. Suicide Mortality During the Perinatal Period. JAMA Network Open 7(6):e2418887-e2418887.
- Viktoryia Alexandrovna Kalesnikava, Philippa J Clarke, Briana Mezuk. 2022. Psychosocial Stress and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Stress Reactivity: Variations by Race and Socioeconomic Status Among Adults at Risk of Diabetes. 84(7):813-821.
- Briana Mezuk, Viktoryia Alexandrovna Kalesnikava. 2019. Suicide Among Older Adults Living in or Transitioning to Residential Long-term Care, 2003 to 2015. JAMA Network Open 2(6):e195627.