Eunjin Tracy, PhD

Eunjin Tracy, PhD, is an NIH T32 post-doctoral scholar who receives training in sleep and circadian rhythms in the department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016 and her first postdoctoral training in Developmental and Health Psychology from the University of Utah. She will begin a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia this fall (2023). Her overarching research and theoretical interests take a life-course perspective on how health-related stress (e.g., type 1 diabetes), sleep, and circadian rhythms, in the context of couple and family relationships, shape healthy aging and disease trajectories. Eunjin’s long-term career goal is to apply a family systems perspective to public health research including type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes by focusing on the role of sleep and circadian rhythms, thereby improving health as well as the functioning of couple and family relationships.