Becky (Rebecca) Salomon, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC completed her postdoctoral fellowship on the UCSF School of Nursing’s Biobehavioral Research Program in Symptom Science in 2021. In her research, she focuses on exposure to societal stressors and subsequent biological changes during pregnancy and early parenting. Becky received her doctorate in Nursing from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her dissertation work focused on the psychoneurological symptom cluster (depressed mood, chronic pain, cognitive dysfunction, sleep disturbance, and fatigue) in chronically stressed low income mothers. In this preliminary work, Becky found that these symptoms were associated with the chronic situational stress experienced by low-income mothers as well as a mother's ability to function. While at UCSF, she worked with Dr. Weiss to follow up on those findings by exploring the link between chronic situational stressors, perceived stress, and biological markers (with specific interests in maternal salivary cortisol and newborn telomeres) using data from the team’s Antenatal Corticosteroids, Maternal Depression and Preterm Infant Stress Response (RO1HD081188) study. Becky’s long-term research goal is to develop community-situated stress interventions for the dually vulnerable population of mothers and children.