Dr. Heather Farmer is an assistant professor specializing in the biopsychosocial processes underlying racial disparities in health among older adults in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Delaware. She teaches courses related to research methods at the undergraduate level. Her line of work integrates theory, innovative biomarker data, and longitudinal analyses of racial disparities in chronic disease physiology and outcomes using nationally-representative panel survey data on middle-aged and older adults in the Health and Retirement Study. Her research specifically focuses on the intersections of race, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES) in producing health disparities in older adults. Her work also focuses on the socioeconomic, psychosocial, and biological mechanisms responsible for such disparities, particularly the role that stress has in contributing to disparities in physiological deterioration (e.g., inflammation, cardiometabolic dysregulation) across the life course.