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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...

Process That Kills Damaged Cells Hints at New Cancer Therapies

December 4, 2017
Scientists have long known that cells originating from an animal’s anterior — the body’s upper half — tend to grow, divide and survive better than those from the posterior. Studies show this to be true in cancer as well, with anterior cancers metastasizing more aggressively. Now scientists are...

UC Merced Public Health Team Assist Fairmead Health Survey

November 21, 2017
  In collaboration with Fairmead Community and Friends and the Madera Department of Public Health, undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty from UC Merced’s Public Health Department participated in the Fairmead Health Survey and Fairmead Health Fair on October 21, 2017....

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