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Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD (he/him/his)

Professor
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Buxton, Elizabeth Fenton susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health, directs the Sleep, Health & Society Collaboratory at Penn State. His research primarily addresses the causes of chronic sleep deficiency in the workplace, home, and society; the health consequences of chronic sleep deficiency; the physiologic and social mechanisms by which these outcomes arise; and translational interventions. Completed and ongoing interdisciplinary and translational human studies in free-ranging humans of all ages address sleep health, cardiometabolic risk, cognition, disparities, and wellbeing across the life course, including large studies such as the Work, Family and Health Network, the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Sleep Substudy, the Einstein Aging Study, and the HANDLS Sleep Study. Dr. Buxton currently serves as an Associate Director of the Penn State clinical and Translational Science Institute. Dr. Buxton co-founded the National Postdoctoral Association in 2003, a member-driven organization that provides a unique national voice for postdocs effective to this day. Dr. Buxton currently serves as the second Editor in Chief of Sleep Health, focused on the social epidemiology and public health aspects of sleep.

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