Health Psychology and Clinical Science (HPCS) is a Ph.D. training area at the Graduate Center, City
HPCS is an innovative training area that provides a thorough grounding in both health psychology and clinical science. Doctoral students will learn current theoretical perspectives as well as the conduct and evaluation of scientific research methods and prevention and intervention trials across diverse populations. What sets this program apart from others is a true commitment to the interaction be
04/30/2026
Earlier today, some of our 2nd year students presented their first doctoral exam research. This is the first milestone our students complete during the course of their program and we are so proud - congratulations! 🎉🎉
04/24/2026
Look at our wonderful HPCS students at this year’s Society of Behavioral Medicine!
10/17/2024
SBM meetup in NYC, organized locally by our very own Dr. Tracey Revenson and HPCS aluma
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. ET
Location: OASIS
315 W 35th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY, 10001
Free!!
*Nearby NYC Subway lines include the 1, 2, 3, S, 7, N, Q, R W, A, C & E.
Special thanks to our local organizers: Dr. Madeleine Hardt, Dr. Tracey Revenson, Dr. Irina Mindlis and Megan Wirtz
Bring friends and colleagues! On-site registrations also welcome!
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2Mg0_qQglMN8oS-0HRV6x4bYczN9VqoAiqZge2cUn-j89DQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
09/30/2022
The Health Psychology and Clinical Science PhD program will be hosting TWO admissions events!
Open House: October 27th, 6-8PM ET
REP’D Info Session: October 24th, 6-8:30 PM ET
Our faculty and current students are looking forward to meeting prospective applicants!
06/30/2022
HPCS faculty Dr. Danielle Berke and 4th year Madalyn Liautaud’s publication “Discrimination Exposure Based on Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation of Veterans Affairs Health Administration Patients” was recently featured on the Gold Foundation's list for Humanism in Healthcare. Check out the link below to read this important work!
Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – June 2022 - The Arnold P. Gold Foundation The Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup features summaries of recently published studies on humanism in healthcare. To receive email notification of new studies once per month, enter your information here and select “Jeffrey Silver Research ... chevron_right Read more
Huge congrats to HPCS student Zeba Ahmad for successfully defending her dissertation titled "Investigating Young Adult Cancer Survivors' Perspectives on the Future". This is an amazing accomplishment for Zeba and her mentor Dr. Jennifer Ford🎉
04/15/2022
Huge congrats to Natalia Macrynikola, and her mentor Dr. Regina Miranda, for Natalia’s defense of her dissertation on social media use and su***de risk. HPCS is so proud of this wonderful accomplishment!
04/15/2022
This week, Irina Mindlis for defended her dissertation titled "Illness Intrusiveness and Psychosocial Adjustment among Older Adults with Multimorbidity." Join us in congratulating Dr. Mindlis and her advisor Dr. Tracey Revenson for this amazing accomplishment!!
HPCS student Beverlin Rosario-Williams was recently awarded a Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for her project entitled, "Investigating the Impact of Affect in Suicide-Specific Attentional Biases." Congrats on the excellent work Bev!
A huge congratulations to HPCS student Joseph Carter on the funding of his R36 Dissertation Grant entitled "Measuring event-level intersectional stigma among gender diverse youth". He will be mentored by Dr. Danielle Berke and Dr. Jon Rendina.
Congrats to HPCS student Irina Mindlis for being awarded the Multimorbidities and Multiple Health Behavior Change SIG’s Outstanding Abstract Award for her poster based on her dissertation work, “Identifying Disease and Treatment-related Factors Associated with Illness Intrusiveness in Older Adults with Multimorbidity”.
Irina will be presenting this poster at the Society for Behavioral Medicine’s conference on April 7th from 5-5:50pm. Congrats again Irina!!