Please join us in welcoming Dr. Rosie Shrout, who has recently joined the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging as an investigator.
Rosie Shrout, PhD, joined UBC as an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department in July 2025. She also holds an adjunct appointment in Purdue University’s Human Development and Family Science Department, where she was an Assistant Professor prior to joining UBC. She completed her PhD at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Ohio State University.
As a social-health psychologist with training in psychoneuroimmunology and behavioral medicine, Rosie studies how stress affects couples’ relationships and health using dyadic, biobehavioral, and longitudinal methods. Her work has shown how couples’ relationships influence psychological, behavioral, and physical health, including the immune, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems, and the gut microbiome. Her overarching goal is to identify factors that put couples’ relationships and health at risk or that help couples grow closer and stronger during turbulent times. Her current research interests include the biological and psychological impacts of stress on breast cancer survivors, experiences of conflict among aging couples, and how people living with concealable chronic illness speak about their illness.
Dr. Shrout’s work has been recognized through numerous awards and honours, including the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, a KL2 Early Career Investigator Award, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology SAGE Emerging Scholar Award. Most recently, she was awarded the Society for Personality and Social Psychology SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award in September 2025. She has also had the opportunity to share her work through networks such as NPR, BBC, U.S. News, and World Report.
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Shrout to the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging and look forward to her involvement in the Centre.
To connect with Dr. Shrout or to learn more about her work, view the following links:
- View Dr. Shrout’s full profile and contact information here: https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/rosie-shrout/
- Dr. Shrout gave a Q&A with the Department of Psychology, which you can read here: https://psych.ubc.ca/news/welcome-rosie-shrout/
- Visit Dr. Shrout’s lab website here: https://mshrout.wixsite.com/research
To read more about Dr. Shrout’s work related to healthy aging, view select publications below:
- Intimate Partner Violence and Inflammaging: Conflict Tactics Predict Inflammation Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults (2024)
- “We’ve Got This”: Middle-Aged and Older Couples’ Satisfying Relationships and We-Talk Promote Better Physiological, Relational, and Emotional Responses to Conflict (2023)
- How aging couples’ emotional and physiological associations change across positive, supportive, and conflictual discussions: Roles of capitalization and responsive behaviors (2023)
- Couples in breast cancer survivorship: Daily associations in relationship satisfaction, stress, and health (2024)