My work has focused on integrating psychological functioning with social inequalities and cardiometabolic risk factors. I am particularly interested in psychological well-being as a predictor of good health across the life course and as a potential buffer of education and racial/ethnic disparities in cardiometabolic health. New research is exploring how individuals from diverse education and racial backgrounds experience well-being in their own words by incorporating open-ended text data from MIDUS with the national survey data.