OUR TEAM

Dr. Leia Belt

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Leia Belt, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (SSHA) Department of Sociology since January 2024. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD specializing...

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Yeng Vue

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Public Health Doctorate Student

Yeng is a doctoral student in the Department of Public Health. She earned a Master of Arts in Psychology, where she examined the relationship between ostracism and aggression, and a Bachelor of Arts...
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Dr. Irene Yen

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Principal Investigator

Irene Yen is the principal investigator and director of the HOPe Lab. She received her B.A. from Stanford University and her MPH and PhD from UC Berkeley. She is a social epidemiologist, a public...

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