Brie Reid, PhD, has recently been named as one of four recipients of the Society for Research in Child Development’s (SRCD) 2021 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Created in 2008, the award, which is accompanied by a $500 honorarium, is given for dissertations completed in the previous year that are unusually noteworthy. Criteria include the quality of the dissertation, publications emerging from the project, and the nominee’s current position and engagement in the field of child development research.

According to SRCD’s award announcement, Dr. Reid was honored “[f]or studying the longitudinal pathways through which early life exposure to nutritional deficits of children leads to inflammation, which in turn increases risk for depression, as children transition into adolescence and young adulthood.”

Dr. Reid earned a PhD in developmental psychology from the Institute of Child Development (ICD) in 2020 and was a post-doctoral fellow in ICD’s Gunnar Laboratory for Developmental Psychobiology Research from June 2020-March 2021. She currently is a post-doctoral fellow with the STAR Initiative on Stress, Trauma, and Resilience at Brown University.