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Fall 2024 PhD recipients
Congratulations to our Fall 2024 PhD recipients!
The Public Health Department congratulates our newest graduates, Dr. Kimberly Arellano Carmona and Dr. Nimrat Sandhu, on receiving their Ph.D. degrees.
Center for Health Policy Research honors Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research honors Prof. Maria-Elena Young
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research honors Prof. Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young for empowering communities and transforming health policies
Campus Hosts Conference of Air Quality and Health
Department Chair Asa Bradman and collaborators on the SJV-CAIR project, funded by the California Department of Justice, hosted a conference on air quality and health in the San Joaquin...
Sarina Rodriguez Named Health Policy Research Scholar
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...
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Grant Enables Researcher to Focus on Valley Families and Children’s Development

March 5, 2019
Certain aspects of children's social cognition ripple throughout their lives, including whether small children can understand that other people’s minds are different than their own. That understanding plays a critical role in relationships, cooperation with other people and even in academic...

Grad Student Discovers, Patents Process to Create “Nanofoams” in Liquid Crystals

February 25, 2019
It sounds like an easy-to-follow recipe from the world of molecular gastronomy: Dissolve nanoparticles in liquid crystals and cool to form frothy nanofoams, tiny tubes and hollow microspheres. But what fifth-year doctoral student Sheida Riahinasab and physics Professor Linda Hirst actually...

APHA 2019: Abstract submission deadlines begin next week!

February 13, 2019
APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo Philadelphia PA | Nov. 02 — Nov. 06 The American Public Health Association is now accepting abstracts for APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo. The theme of the meeting is Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health...

New Project to Build Climate Resilience through Improved Land Management

February 7, 2019
A $4.6 million grant to UCs Merced and Irvine will help researchers develop new tools and methods for better managing the state’s forests, shrub lands and grasslands. The Innovation Center for Advancing Ecosystem Climate Solutions, a three-year program co-led by UC Merced Professor Roger Bales...

The Del Jones Award - Tashelle Wright

January 25, 2019
Society Announces 2019 Del Jones Memorial Travel Awards                               The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the...

Professor’s Research Earns Prestigious Appointment to Help Guide Tobacco Policy

December 21, 2018
Professor Mariaelena Gonzalez has been appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee (TEROC). Gonzalez, with the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts and an affiliate of the Heath Sciences Research Institute, focuses on social...

Researcher Takes First Step Toward Improved Diagnosis for Valley Fever

November 28, 2018
Clinicians searching for a new way to identify Valley fever patients who will develop the disease’s worst symptoms will find hope in a new paper by UC Merced Professor Katrina Hoyer . A research project led by Hoyer and former UC Merced researcher Dan Davini, in collaboration with Madera’s Valley...

UC Merced students present research and receive awards at APHA

November 16, 2018
UC Merced had a strong showing at APHA in San Diego this month! Two of our graduate students gave oral presentations (Zahra Goliaei and Jazmine Kenny), and Andrea Lopez, Adriana Nunez, Ravi Singh, Jazmine Kenny, Tashelle Wright, Chia Thao, and Mechelle Perea-Ryan presented posters on topics ranging...

Health Communication Researcher Working to Improve Internet-based Medical Information

October 17, 2018
If you’re an American with Internet access, you’ve probably done it. You get a headache, a sniffle or a mystery bruise, and instead of seeing your doctor, you consult “Dr. Google.” According to some studies, more than 80 percent of Americans have used the Internet to “self-diagnose” health issues....

Congratulations to Tashelle Wright & Jazmine Kenny, on being the Honorable Mention for the 2018 Aging and Rural/Environmental Health Award!

October 4, 2018
Congratulations to Tashelle Wright & Jazmine Kenny, on being the Honorable Mention for the 2018 Aging and Rural/Environmental Health Award!   On behalf of the APHA Aging & Public Health Section and the Section Award Committee, Tashelle & Jazmine's manuscript has been...

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