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Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda was a Staff Research Associate in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity, and Place (HOPe) Lab within the Department of Public Health. She graduated with a BA in Public Health from the University of California, Merced, in May 2020, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in...

Research Associate Alum Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda was a Staff Research Associate in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity, and Place (HOPe) Lab within the Department of Public Health. She graduated with a BA in Public Health from the University of California, Merced, in May 2020, and is currently pursuing...

Research Associate Alum Rebecca Martinez was a Staff Researcher at UC Merced's HOPe Lab. She earned her BA in Public Health from UC Merced in 2021 and her MPH in Health Policy and Services from the University of Southern California in 2024. Born and raised in California's Central Valley, Rebecca has...

My teaching philosophy uses evidence-based pedagogy techniques to cultivate students’ sociological imagination. Evidence-based pedagogy techniques focus on creating an environment that optimizes students learning by providing routine and progressive build-up of knowledge. I use the following...

Chrysoula Tsogka joined the department of Applied Mathematics at UC Merced in July 2019. Between 2007 and 2019 she was a faculty member of the Applied Mathematics Department at the University of Crete, Greece. Initially an Associate Professor (2006-2014) and then a Professor (2014-2019). Between...

I'm the Principal Investigator and Director of the Lab. I'm a social epidemiologist, a public health professor at the University of California Merced and a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Research Leadership fellow. My research is currently centered on the question of how place influences...

We Investigate Social Factors Influencing Health and Well-Being The Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab is a research group at the University of California, Merced investigating key social factors affecting health and health inequities in California's Central Valley, the heart of California.

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