Our Faculty
PUBLIC HEALTH
CORE FACULTY
Asa Bradman
Children's exposure to pesticides and other environmental chemicals; community exposures to air pollutants and noise; environmental exposures in agricultural communities; impacts of environmental exposures on children's health and development; STEM environmental literacy education for high school and middle school youth; pesticide use policy; organic agricultural policy; environmental health
Email: abradman@ucmerced.edu
NANCY BURKE
Global health; social inequalities in health/health disparities; health behavior; cancer and chronic illness; oral health; medical anthropology; clinical trials recruitment/research participation; refugees; survivorship; immigration; health literacy
Email: nburke2@ucmerced.edu
Alec Chan-Golston
Bayesian spatial statistics; finite population estimation; missing data; geographic health disparities; the food environment
Email: achan-golston@ucmerced.edu
RICARDO CISNEROS
Environmental exposure and health; air quality research and management; impacts of forest fires on air quality and health, ozone distribution and exposure in the Sierra Nevada region; environmental health
Email: rcisneros@ucmerced.edu
Lindsay Crawford
The impact of various health behaviors on cognitive outcomes; public health pedagogy
Email: lcrawford5@ucmerced.edu
maria-elena de trinidad young
Immigration policy; citizenship and legal status; national, state, and local policy; immigrant integration and criminalization; health care access; social determinants of health
Email: mariaelena@ucmerced.edu
KARINA DIAZ RIOS
Nutrition education; eating behavior change; cross-cultural adaptation of interventions; measurement validation; implementation science
Email: kdiazrios@ucmerced.edu
SIDRA GOLDMAN-MELLOR
Epidemiology of depression and suicidal behavior; maternal mental and behavioral health; psychosocial adversity and health; intersections between mental health and violence
Email: sgoldman-mellor@ucmerced.edu
SANDIE HA
Epidemiology; public health; perinatal health; neurodevelopment; maternal and child health; chronic diseases; environmental health
Email: sha55@ucmerced.edu
Thelma hurd
Health disparities; building community capacity to effect health equity among diverse, underserved populations; clinical oncology; breast disease in multicultural populations; medical education
Email: thurd2@ucmerced.edu
ANDREA JOYCE
Public health entomology; alternatives to pesticides; vector borne disease; population genetics; vector ecology; environmental health; healthy agricultural communities; integrated pest management
Email: ajoyce2@ucmerced.edu
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Ali Rivera-GonzAlez
Latino health; health policy; health equity; healthcare outcomes; public health emergencies; Puerto Rico health system
Email: arivera10@ucmerced.edu
A. SUSANA RAMIREZ
Media; inequality and public health; food and nutrition policy; health communication
Email: sramirez37@ucmerced.edu
IRENE YEN
Epidemiology; social determinants; public housing; educational attainment
Email: iyen@ucmerced.edu
Xing Gao
Structural determinants of health; Historical and contemporary place-based policies & programming; Neighborhood gentrification, segregation, and disinvestment; Place-based socioenvironmental determinants; Racial equity in pregnancy, perinatal, and cardiovascular health
Email: xinggao@ucmerced.edu