Angela Denise Bryan is a social psychologist known for her research on HIV/STD prevention, healthy eating habits, and use of legalized cannabis. She is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder where she co-directs the Center for Health and Neuroscience, Genes, and Environment. Bryan received the 2006 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contribution to Psychology for her studies in health psychology that used "social psychology theory to understand dynamics of unhealthy behavior and [ ] used that knowledge to design, implement, and evaluate effective, theory-based interventions to change unhealthy behavior." Biography Bryan was born at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia in 1970. She completed her bachelor's degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992, graduating with highest honors in psychology. At UCLA, Bryan's Interests in the social psychology of health behavior and the social implications of condom use, in particular, were sparked by her honors advisor, Barry Collins. Bryan continued her education at Arizona State University where she completed her PhD in social psychology with a quantitative emphasis in 1997. Bryan's doctoral research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of an intervention aimed at promoting condom use among college women was funded by a National Science Foundation fellowship. Her dissertation was titled "Psychosocial and contextual determinants of condom use among incarcerated adolescents" and completed under the supervision of Leona Aiken. Bryan continued her training as a postdoctoral research associate at Center for HIV/Health Intervention and Promotion (CHIP) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Bryan joined the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999, where she expanded her research program to include studies of physical exercise. She is a member of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, a faculty fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at University of Colorado at Boulder and a member of the faculty of the Anschutz School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. Bryan's work on alcohol use and HIV risk has been funded through grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Her work on exercise, DNA methylation, and cancer risk has been funded by the National Cancer Institute. Her work on anti-inflammatory properties of cannabis is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Research Bryan's research applies a biopsychosocial model of health behavior to a variety of topics including HIV/STD prevention,