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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
I am excited to announce that I was awarded a grant to study Oral Health Disparities in Merced County by the Latino Aging Research Resource Center. I am excited to be a LARRC scholar and work with faculty at UC Davis. This project seeks to identify oral-health related factors that may contribute to the risk… Read More »