Michael Georgescu

Michael is a 2023 Master of Public Health candidate in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at the Yale School of Public Health. He earned a BA in Psychology at Binghamton University in 2012. His current research interests include how violence, trauma, and PTSD alter long-term physical health and accelerate aging. He is also interested in neuro-cognitive aging and its associations with biological and psychosocial risk factors. His current research focuses on psychological resilience and trajectories of depressive symptoms in older adults using nationally representative samples. He is also a guest researcher at the National Institute on Aging, collaborating on research projects that identify biomarkers, life periods, long-term exposures, and subclinical disease indicators that increase the risk of cognitive and physical function loss and disability.