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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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Campus Research Taking a Healthy Approach

November 8, 2015
By Jeremy Olson for UC Merced Magazine Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the fall 2015 issue of UC Merced Magazine. The University of California, Merced, was plotted at the juncture of mountains, fields and urban sprawl with the mission of serving the diverse needs of the San...

Study: Skewed Academic Expectations Linked to Sexual Risk

October 14, 2015
Scholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents. But new research from the University of California, Merced, shows that when a young woman’s achievement level doesn’t live up to those expectations, the result can be an increase...

Study: Skewed Academic Expectations Linked to Sexual Risk

October 14, 2015
Scholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents. But new research from the University of California, Merced, shows that when a young woman’s achievement level doesn’t live up to those expectations, the result can be...

Project Aims to Fight Breast Cancer One Message at a Time

October 13, 2015
Research indicates that obesity can increase a woman’s risk of developing and dying from breast cancer. But while communication about healthy eating has proven to be effective, a growing and significant subset of the population might not be getting the message. A new project at the...

Project Aims to Fight Breast Cancer One Message at a Time

October 13, 2015
Research indicates that obesity can increase a woman’s risk of developing and dying from breast cancer. But while communication about healthy eating has proven to be effective, a growing and significant subset of the population might not be getting the message. A new project at the University of...

Event Connects High School Girls with Female Scientists

October 6, 2015
While many young women her age are thinking about their favorite shoes or who they’ll go with to the winter formal, Callie Nance, 15, is thinking about her favorite science organizations and her future as a physicist. That’s why the Dinner with a Scientist event at UC Merced last week was so...

New Nanomaterials Taking Research to Mexico, Possibly into Space

September 28, 2015
Professors Linda Hirst and Sayantani Ghosh are combining liquid crystals with nanoparticles such as gold and quantum dots to come up with a new platform that could have applications in fields such as optics and medicine. And the two new grants the School of Natural Sciences researchers have earned...

Study: Smoke-Free Zones, Higher Taxes Deter Youth Smoking

September 8, 2015
Banning smoking in the workplace and increasing taxes on cigarettes have discouraged teens and young adults from taking up smoking, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Merced.  The study, published today (Sept. 8) in JAMA Pediatrics, used data from the Bureau of Labor...

Graduate Student Profile: Gracy Mantoan Seeks To Influence Public Health

August 27, 2015
Gracy Mantoan is not what you would call a traditional graduate student — but her past experiences are precisely what drive her as she pursues a Ph.D. with the public health graduate group at UC Merced. In her native Brazil, Mantoan earned her degree in medicine from the University of...

Will A Surgical Mask Keep You Safe?

July 8, 2015
The following article from NPR can be found below here.

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