Professor Daniel Stokols PhD

My research focuses on the study of people’s transactions with their social and physical environments, especially how they influence personal and public health, social behavior, and ecological sustainability.

My research, teaching, and graduate mentorship at UCI span the fields of social ecology, environmental psychology, the science of team science, and transdisciplinary public health.

I served as Director of the Social Ecology Program in 1988-92 and as Founding Dean of the School of Social Ecology at UCI from 1992-98. My faculty appointments in Social Ecology are in the Departments of Psychology and Social Behavior and Urban Planning and Public Policy.

I have courtesy appointments in Public Health and Epidemiology and am a member of UCI’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. I co-authored Behavior, Health, and Environmental Stress; edited Perspectives on Environment and Behavior; and co-edited the Handbook of Environmental Psychology, Environmental Simulation, and Promoting Human Wellness.

My book, Social Ecology in the Digital Age (2018), was published by Academic Press/Elsevier in October 2017 (http://bit.ly/2uqjqlz). I served as scientific consultant to the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, for the evaluation of NCI's transdisciplinary centers initiatives during 2005-2011; and as a team science consultant for the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) between 2011-2017.

I am a co-author of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s report (2015) on Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science and a member of the National Academies Presidents' Advisory Group on Convergent Science. See also: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/dstokols/