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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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Article published by Dr. Irene Yen, "Gentrification and binge drinking in California neighborhoods: It matters how long you’ve lived there".

April 27, 2018
                      Professor Yen is senior author for a report which examined the association between gentrification during the period 2006-2015 and binge drinking in an analysis of the California Health...

Society for Applied Anthropology Conference in Philadephia

April 18, 2018
Public Health Grad Students Present Posters   Last week graduate students in Professor Burke’s Health Equity Research group spent four days in Philadelphia at the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings. Three second-year students presented their thesis papers during the...

Professor and students recognized for research excellence at health communication conference

April 16, 2018
Professor and students recognized for research excellence at health communication conference Professor Susana Ramirez and doctoral student Erendira Estrada were recently recognized at the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication. Their poster titled “Development of a local brand to...

Researchers Examine Barriers to Organ Donation and Possible Remedies

April 16, 2018
Every 10 minutes, someone is added to the national organ transplant waiting list, and about once every hour, someone on the list is removed — either because they died while waiting or grew too ill for surgery. The number of Americans on the waiting list totals more than 114,000 as of this writing,...

Public health doctoral student presents research at conference

April 16, 2018
Public health doctoral student presents research at conference   Kimberly Arellano Carmona, a first year doctoral student in public health, recently presented research at the Society for Behavioral Medicine. The study, “Beyond Fatalism: Nutrition information overload and sources of...

Health Psychology Professor Wins Prestigious Award

April 13, 2018
The Society of Pediatric Psychology has recognized Professor Deborah Wiebe for her body of research on the psychology of adolescent health. Wiebe, the head of UC Merced’s Health Psychology program within the Psychological Sciences graduate group, won the Dennis Drotar Distinguished Research...

Lifetime Achievement Award Honors Distinguished Psychology Professor

April 12, 2018
Distinguished Professor Jan Wallander heads to New Orleans today (April 12) to attend a conference and receive the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Pediatric Medicine and Behavioral Health from the Society of Behavioral Medicine Child and Family Health...

Article published by Ph.D. student Kim Arellano Carmona in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing

April 10, 2018
Article published by Ph.D. student Kim Arellano Carmona in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing "Adding a Parent to the Brain Tumor Team: Evaluating a Peer Support Intervention for Parents of Children With Brain Tumors" http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KkMasVj8HtkHnTPU9sz2/...

Study: Drug-Resistant Cancer Cleverer Than Imagined

April 4, 2018
Precision medicine offers hope after a life-changing cancer diagnosis. But some cancers that initially respond to targeted chemotherapy become treatment-resistant — and the tumor itself is the culprit. Now, new research from UC Merced and UC Irvine is helping explain how therapy-resistant cancers...

Study: Kitchen and Culture Clash When Promoting Healthy Eating to Latinos

March 22, 2018
Latinos suffer from some of the highest obesity rates in the nation. Health officials have tried to intervene with messaging that encourages healthy eating and healthy behavior, but these campaigns have met with little success. Now a new study from UC Merced public health Professor Susana Ramirez...

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