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Hello, I'm Dr. Irene Yen I'm the Principal Investigator and Director of the Lab. I'm a social epidemiologist and a public health professor at the University of California, Merced. My research is currently centered on the question of how place influences health. That is, how things like housing...

Sofia Aguilar, a native of Los Angeles, California, graduated from the University of California, Merced in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in Public Health. She was a Student Researcher in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab in the Department of Public Health. In this role, Sofia...

Recent Talks SIAM/CAIMS Joint Annual Meeting (Montréal, Jul 2025) MS: Statistical Methods for Inference of Continuous-time Dynamical Systems Applied Math Seminar (University of California, Santa Barbara, Apr 2025) UCSB Applied Math/PDE/Data Science Seminar SIAM Conference on Computational Science...

For more information about the Health Psychology program at UC Merced, please visit our website: Health PsychologyProgram. If you're interested in learning more about our lab and what we do, please feel free to reach out! You can contact Dr. Hagger directly at mhagger@ucmerced.edu. If you're...

If you are interested in joining the UC Merced Department of Public Health and/or working with me as a PhD student, please reach out and check out the Department's website for prospective students. Current PhD Students: Valerie Martinez (2019-) Valerie Martinez joined the doctoral program in the UC...

Courses taught by Dr. Martin Hagger: Undergraduate Courses: PSY-190-2/3: Science of Behavior Change Many of the problems observed in today’s society can be linked, directly or indirectly, to human behavior. Governments, organizations, and professionals increasingly recognize the value of developing...

Lab Director: Dr. Martin Hagger Lab Manager: Susette Moyers Graduate Students: Kaylyn McAnally Lauren McKinley Jessica Balla Thais Benoit Zoe Griffith Danielle Simpson Undergraduate Research Assistants: Michael Vang Kelsey Severson Carolina Hernandez Mercedes Pena Katie Roseman Priya Sandhu Delainey...

For a more updated list of research interests and publications, please visit my google scholar profile Biological Physics: Cell Mechanics/Mechanobiology. Current research is revealing that mechanical forces are important to biology in a variety of ways: think of muscles contracting, or tissues being...

Shilpa Khatri Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics skhatri3@ucmerced.edu Lab: SE1 235 Office: ACS 367 Shayna Bennett Graduate Student Applied Mathematics sbennett3@ucmerced.edu ACS 358C Adam Binswanger Graduate Student Applied Mathematics abinswanger@ucmerced.edu ACS 342B Sarah Downs Graduate...