Karestan Koenen
Professor of psychiatric epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and institute member at the Broad Institute who studies the population-level impacts of trauma and adversity on mental and physical health.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 33min
The things we carry
Karestan Koenen, psychiatric epidemiologist studying trauma’s population health effects. Jason Buenrostro, cellular biologist exploring how stress alters cells. Kate McLaughlin, children’s psychologist focused on childhood adversity and brain development. They discuss how different adversities shape bodies and brains, cellular and epigenetic memory of stress, timing and types of exposure, and how policy and social support can alter biological impacts.
