Orfeu Buxton, PhD

Orfeu Buxton, PhD

Elizabeth Fenton Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Co-funded faculty: Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), Associate Director: Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Pennsylvania State University
Editor in Chief, Sleep Health
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Dr. Buxton directs the Sleep, Health & Society Collaboratory at Penn State. His research primarily focuses on:

  • the causes of chronic sleep deficiency in the workplace, home, and society;
  • the health consequences of chronic sleep deficiency;
  • the physiologic and social mechanisms by which these outcomes arise
  • interventions to improve sleep and health
  • Ongoing interdisciplinary human studies in the Sleep, Health, & Society Collaboratory and in free-ranging humans of all ages address sleep health, cardiometabolic risk, cognition, disparities, and well-being across the life course.
  • Successful aging is a central focus of this work 

Dr. Buxton earned his doctoral degree in Neuroscience from Northwestern University, and then had post-doctoral training in sleep and endocrinology at the University of Chicago. Dr. Buxton was a co-founder of the National Postdoctoral Association (nationalpostdoc.org), a member-driven organization that provides a unique, national voice for postdoctoral scholars.