Tag Archives: health disparities

Trifecta talk at MSU College of Communications Arts and Sciences

I gave a talk early this month at Trifecta Technology and Innovation for Health, at MSU’s College of Communications Arts and Sciences about some of the research going on with my collaborators there. I presented ongoing research on online health information seeking behavior (HISB) that examines various online channels (emailing providers, talking about health in chat… Read More »

Pang Vang published oral health paper in UC Merced Undergrad Research Journal

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 »

Kesia Garibay wins SACNAS Public Health Award for Oral Health Poster

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 »

Article on Latino online Health Information Seeking Behavior published in JMIR

We have recently had an article published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). The team of researchers included faculty at UC Merced, Cal State Stanislaus, and Michigan State University. Online Health Information-Seeking Behavior and Confidence in Filling Out Online Forms Among Latinos: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the California Health Interview Survey, 2011-2012 Background:… Read More »

Understanding the Oral Health Needs of Young Adults at the University of California Merced: A Pilot Study

I have been awarded a Hellman Fellows Faculty Fellowship is to examine young adult oral health beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, practices and access to care among young adults attending UC Merced (UCM) in general, and those from the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) in particular. This current study builds upon an exploratory study undertaken at UCM in… Read More »

Student Poster on Oral Health on Display March 3 – March 14

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 »

Floss

Latinos have the highest periodontitis prevalence of all US racial-ethnic groups, placing them at high risk for oral health related diseases and complications from related inflammation. US Latino adults are also at high risk because they are less likely to have visited a dentist in the last year. A 2012 general health survey of 400… Read More »

Op-ed in LA Times about recent flu research

We recently had an op-ed published in the LA Times encouraging funding for more flu vaccination campaigns among Latinos. This op-ed was based on a recently published article by myself and graduate students Jennifer Mendiola and Van Do-Reynoso titled Generational status as a determinant of influenza vaccination among Mexican-identified adults in California, 2011-12, which was… Read More »