Jordan Lab
Welcome to the Jordan Lab at Indiana University. We are a team of dynamic researchers led by Evan Jordan, associate professor and associate chair of strategic initiatives in the Department of Health & Wellness Design at the IU School of Public Health – Bloomington. Our research has four focus areas:
- The experience of stress as it happens in free-living conditions in the built and natural environment.
- Measurement of stress particularly through custom built mobile phone apps and commercially available wearable technology.
- Spatiotemporal analysis of individuals' usual environment and stressor experiences.
- The role of stress and environment in healthy aging and diseases like Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and cancer.
Our research methodologies allow us to better understand how stress is experienced in space and time, connecting stress and related health outcomes to the places we live, work, and play. In particular, we are able to measure exogenous and behavioral factors shown in the figure below, developed by the Office of Neural Exposome and Toxicology (ONETOX) at the National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke.
