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UCLA Honors Maria-Elena Young
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Proudly Honors Maria-Elena Young, PhD
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research honors Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, PhD for empowering communities and transforming health policies
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Campus Hosts Conference of Air Quality and Health
Public Health Department Chair Asa Bradman and collaborators on the SJV-CAIR project, funded by the California Department of Justice, will host a conference on air quality and...
Sarina Rodriguez Named Health Policy Research Scholars
Sarina Rodriguez Named Health Policy Research Scholars
We are proud to announce that Ph.D. student Sarina Rodriguez has been selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership programs, the Health Policy Scholars...
Ph.D. candidate Sneha Ghimire presents her research at the the national Society for Epidemiologic Research's annual meeting.
Ghimire Presents at Society for Epidemiologic Research
Public Health Ph.D. student Sneha Ghimire in Prof. Sandie Ha’s lab presented her research on the links between ambient air pollution and risk of fetal death in California’s San...
Spring 2024 grad students
Congrats Spring 2024 Grads!
The Public Health Department congratulates its newest graduates on receiving their degrees! Ph.D. students Kimberly Sanchez, Gilda Zarate-Gonzalez, Carlisha Hall, Rudiel Sanchez, and Kimberly Valle,...

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October 27, 2020
Biophysical chemistry Professor Shahar Sukenik and the graduate students in his lab are trying to make sense out of what might seem to some to be chaos. They aim to better understand how a series of floppy, malleable proteins function — or malfunction — inside cells. The work has earned Sukenik a $...
October 23, 2020
Newswise — PHILADELPHIA (October 14, 2020) – Smell loss is a frequently reported symptom of COVID-19 but reports of prevalence vary from study to study and range from 5% to 98%. With such a wide range of estimates, it is difficult to prioritize its importance for testing and...
October 22, 2020
The coronavirus has impacted everyone in different ways and three public health professors are examining specifically how rural, Latinx communities in California have been affected in a new study funded by the University of California Office of the President. California deemed agriculture an...
October 20, 2020
A new coalition of universities and community partners across the state — including UC Merced —aims to address the COVID-19 pandemic in communities that are disproportionally affected. A $4.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19...
October 20, 2020
Graduate student Kesia Garibay presented her research on “Food and state nutrition policy: A systematic review of nutrition policies introduced in California to address obesity between 1999-2019” Oct. 20 at the 2020 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Virtual Conference.
September 16, 2020
Researchers at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute at the University of California have launched a new public-private pilot initiative to bring telehealth services to underserved rural residents in Merced County....
September 16, 2020
Everyone will have opportunities to learn about collaborative research at the intersections of COVID-19 and topics related to the environment, health and equity through a series of online conference sessions this fall. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Colleen Naughton...
August 27, 2020
Shaina Santa Cruz, a graduate student in the Public Health Graduate Program, was awarded the Central California Asian Pacific Women (CCAPW) scholarship. The scholarship provides financial assistance to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women pursuing higher education who are from Fresno, Kern, Kings...
July 26, 2020
Since 2011, the Hellman Fellows Fund has provided close to 60 UC Merced assistant professors with much-needed research support in the form of seed funding. The prestigious Hellman Fellowship has launched countless careers at UC Merced and across the UC system. Now, thanks to a generous new $3.5...

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