Pang Vang, has recently published a paper based off of data gathered by the Social Determinants of Health Lab. Her paper, published in the UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal was titled The Importance of Advocating for Oral Health Education Programs on College Campuses: Original Research on the Systematic Examination of Oral Health Beliefs among College Student Minorities. Pang… Read More »
Undergraduate student Kesia Garibay, who was a research assistant for the Social Determinants of Health Lab last academic year and summer 2016 was the recipient of an award for the poster Oral Health Risks Among UC Merced Students (authors: Garibay K, Pena E, Vang P, Marines M, De Guzman K, Gonzalez M.) at the October… Read More »
The undergraduate student research assistants in my lab – Kesia Garibay, Karina DeGuzman, Morelia Marines, Elizabeth Pena, and Pang Vang – presented the poster “Oral Health Risks Among UC Merced Students” at the Student Research Poster Competition on Tuesday. You can see their poster as part of the Student Research Display sponsored by UCM ReCCES in… Read More »
The Blum Center graciously agreed to judge the Public Health 005 Global Health Posters that were the fall semester class’ research projects (at stake 10 extra credit points). The goal of this project was to link local Merced or SJV health issues to larger, global health problems. This class had a significant number of first… Read More »