Anao Zhang will join the UM SSW faculty as a transitional post-doctoral research fellow and incoming assistant professor. He will also become part of the TIDL lab. As a health and mental health intervention researcher, Anao’s research interests are integrated behavioral health; social determinants of health; and mechanisms though which psychosocial wellbeing affects individuals’ physical health (e.g., psychoneuroimmunology). Methodologically, Anao is interested in advanced statistical modeling including: causal inference, meta-analysis, machine learning (in Bayesian inference), and multi-level modeling among others.