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

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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

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Alec Chan-Golston

Bayesian spatial statistics; finite population estimation; missing data; geographic health disparities; the food environment

Email: achan-golston@ucmerced.edu

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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

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Lindsay Crawford

The impact of various health behaviors on cognitive outcomes; public health pedagogy

Email: lcrawford5@ucmerced.edu

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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

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KARINA DIAZ RIOS

Nutrition education; eating behavior change; cross-cultural adaptation of interventions; measurement validation; implementation science

Email: kdiazrios@ucmerced.edu

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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

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SANDIE HA

Epidemiology; public health; perinatal health; neurodevelopment; maternal and child health; chronic diseases; environmental health

Email: sha55@ucmerced.edu

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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

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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

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A. SUSANA RAMIREZ

Media; inequality and public health; food and nutrition policy; health communication

Email: sramirez37@ucmerced.edu

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IRENE YEN

Epidemiology; social determinants; public housing; educational attainment

Email: iyen@ucmerced.edu

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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

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Maria-elena young

Public Health Graduate Program Chair

Email: mariaelena@ucmerced.edu

Website: publichealth.ucmerced.edu

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