{"id":290,"date":"2026-05-01T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/?p=290"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:32:12","slug":"brian-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/2026\/05\/01\/brian-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 225px; float: none; margin-left: 0; background-color: #329998; color: #fff; border-left: none; -webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1); -moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1); box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1);\">\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/whra\/files\/2026\/05\/brian-smith.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Smith\" width=\"153\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"padding-top: 0.5em; color: #ffffff;\">Associate Professor<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine &#8211; Psychiatry<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Research Areas<\/h3>\n<p>Trauma, mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, public health, women&#8217;s health<\/p>\n<h3>Why Women&#8217;s Health?<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m the Deputy Director of the National Center for PTSD Women&#8217;s Health Sciences Division, where I am also a Research Health Scientist. My program of research examines the effects of traumatic stress and mental health sequelae on health and psychosocial functioning across the life course. I examine these associations in populations at heightened risk for trauma, including especially military veterans, and frequently examine risk models in the context of gender. Much of my work is focused on women veterans specifically, and the implications of exposures to stress and trauma for long-term outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine &#8211; Psychiatry Research Areas Trauma, mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, public health, women&#8217;s health Why Women&#8217;s Health? I&#8217;m the Deputy Director of the National Center for PTSD Women&#8217;s Health Sciences Division, where I am also a Research Health Scientist. My program of research examines the effects of traumatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}