Professional Title:
Assistant Professor of Public Health
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Research Interests:
Immigrant health inequities
Immigration and health policy
Citizenship and legal status and health
Bio:
Dr. Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young is an immigrant health scholar whose research seeks to understand the impact of the US immigration system on the well-being of immigrants and their families. She has established new frameworks and measures to understand the relationships between immigration policies, citizenship/legal status, and health, and has conducted some of the first empirical studies showing that immigration policy is associated with health inequities. A guiding principle in her work is to partner with immigrants and community members as active contributors in the design and interpretation of research. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and published in a wide range of public health, health policy, and sociological journals, including American Journal of Public Health, The Milbank Quarterly, International Migration Review, and Social Science and Medicine. She received her PhD in community health sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her MPH with an emphasis in maternal and child health from UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
