Tag Archives: oral health

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 »

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 »

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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 »