A new generation of community- and population-based research is combining measures of social context, experience, and behavior with direct measures of physiology, gene sequence and function, and health. Studies drawing on models and methods from the social and biological sciences have the potential to illuminate the multilevel mechanisms through which experience becomes biology, and to move past decontextualized and reductionistic approaches to human development, behavior, and health. In this perspective we highlight challenges and opportunities at the biosocial interface, and briefly discuss COVID-19 as a case study demonstrating the importance of linking across levels of analysis.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- mental health
- public health
- coronavirus disease
- induced apoptosis
- sars cov
- endothelial cells
- health information
- human health
- cell cycle arrest
- high throughput
- risk assessment
- oxidative stress
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- transcription factor
- social media
- case control
- climate change
- endoplasmic reticulum stress