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Defining trauma in complex care management: Safety-net providers’ perspectives on structural vulnerability and time

Publication: Journal Article

Thompson-Lastad, Ariana, Irene H. Yen, Mark D. Fleming, Meredith Van Natta, Sara Rubin, Janet K. Shim, and Nancy J. Burke. 2017. “Defining Trauma in Complex Care Management: Safety-Net Providers’ Perspectives on Structural Vulnerability and Time”. Social Science & Medicine 186: 104-12.

Assessing patient activation among high-need, high-cost patients in urban safety net care settings

Publication: Journal Article

Napoles, Tessa M, Nancy J Burke, Janet K Shim, Elizabeth Davis, David Moskowitz, and Irene H Yen. 2017. “Assessing Patient Activation Among High-Need, High-Cost Patients in Urban Safety Net Care Settings”. Journal of Urban Health 94 (6): 803-13.

'I'll take a year off and look what happened': how family caregiving responsibilities influence educational trajectories in the United States

Publication: Journal Article

Mackie, Joanna Farrer, Janet K Shim, Catherine d P Duarte, Robert K Ream, and Irene Yen. 2022. “’I’ll Take a Year off and Look What Happened’: How Family Caregiving Responsibilities Influence Educational Trajectories in the United States”. American Journal of Qualitative Research 6 (3): 1-22.

Renovating space to age in place: Experiences of elderly residents living through public housing renovations and reflections from affordable housing developers

Publication: Journal Article

Dubbin, Leslie, and Irene H. Yen. 2023. “Renovating Space to Age in Place: Experiences of Elderly Residents Living through Public Housing Renovations and Reflections from Affordable Housing Developers”. Journal of Aging and Environment.

Lessons from Two Latino Communities Working with Academic Partners to Increase Access to COVID-19 Testing

Publication: Journal Article

Garibay, Kesia K., Arturo Durazo, Tatiana Vizcaíno, Yolanda Oviedo, Kara Marson, Carina Arechiga, Patric Prado, et al. 2024. “Lessons from Two Latino Communities Working With Academic Partners to Increase Access to COVID-19 Testing”. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action 18 (1): 1-9.

Hello, I'm Dr. Irene Yen

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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...

Welcome to our research lab

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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.

Rebecca Martinez

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Rebecca Martinez

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Rebecca Martinez (she/her/ella) 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 a deep...

Kimberly Montanez

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Kimberly Montanez graduated from UC Merced in May 2024 with a bachelor's degree in public health. She will now be participating in a year-long internship with the National Health Corps as an outreach and enrollment coordinator with Livingston Community Health. Kimberly is a Central Valley local and...