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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

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

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...

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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Public Health Seniors Win Research Week Poster Presentation

March 8, 2018

Morelia Marines and Kesia Garibay who are Public Health seniors (and mentored by Public Health professor Dr. Nancy Burke) were selected as winners for Research Week for their poster presentation. They both received high scores for their presentation at the Research Week Showcase and won as an...

A Fruit Fly Walks Into a Bar ...

March 5, 2018

Editor’s note: Every year UC Merced shines a spotlight on the cutting-edge research underway at the university. Research Week is an opportunity for the public to explore the groundbreaking work conducted by students and faculty. As part of Research Week, the Newsroom will highlight a few of these...

Local Valley Foundation Helps Seniors Avoid Hospital Re-Entry

March 1, 2018

Good News for The Elderly of Merced and Stanislaus Counties Legacy Health Endowment (LHE), who has in the past worked with Dr. Paul Brown (a UC Merced Public Health professor) on understanding Valley Fever, is now looking to help local senior citizens. LHE has teamed up with Covenant Care...

Professor Ramirez presents nutrition and cancer prevention research at Latino Cancer Conference

February 28, 2018

Dr. Susana Ramirez, an Assistant Professor of Public Health at UC Merced, presented her research on nutrition communication among bicultural Latinas at the inaugural conference on Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos in San Antonio, Texas, last week. The presentation focused on an empowerment...

First year PhD student earns university fellowship

February 14, 2018

Kimberly Arellano Carmona, a first-year doctoral student in Public Health, has been awarded the 2018-19 Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship at UC Merced for her continued work with Dr. Susana Ramirez, assistant professor of Public Health at UC Merced. The Faculty...

Online Courses Available from UC Global Health Institute

February 12, 2018

EXPAND YOUR PUBLIC HEALTH KNOWLEDGE It has recently been announced that three new courses – developed by the UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI) and UC’s Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) – will be available for spring 2018 registration. The...

Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California Conference Jan. 29th in Monterey, Cal.

January 29, 2018

Members of the Public Health department attended the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California Conference on Jan. 29th in Monterey, California, and presented a poster ‘Wolbachia infections in Mosquitoes of Merced County.’ Attending (from right to left) -Assistant...

Dr. Irene Yen Joins UC Merced Public Health Department in 2018

January 9, 2018

The Public Health Department at UC Merced is delighted to welcome our newest faculty member, Irene Yen, PhD, MPH, Professor of Public Health. Dr. Yen comes to us from UCSF where she held faculty appointments in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and...

Public Health Professor Honored for Early-Career Research

December 12, 2017

The American Public Health Association (APHA) presented public health Professor Susana Ramirez with the 2017 Early Career Award at its annual meeting last month. The award is handed out every year to an early career public health professional — someone active in the field who received their...

AAAS Fellow Brings Groundbreaking Genetics Research to Campus

December 11, 2017

Professor Chris Amemiya is new to UC Merced, but he’s a veteran scientist with a long list of breakthroughs to his name. Amemiya’s discoveries have changed the way scientists understand vertebrate genomes and their evolution, and he was recently elected a fellow of the American...