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Dr. Irene Yen

Person: 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 health professor at the University of California Merced and a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary...

Community-Led Solutions: How Local Organizing Committees Drive Change for Housing and Health Equity in California’s Central Valley

Publication: Journal Article

Martinez, Rebecca L., David Frausto, Juan Zavala-Sandoval, Anabel Serna, Claudia G. Corchado, Alexandra Alvarado, Janine Nkosi, and Irene Yen. 2024. “Community-Led Solutions: How Local Organizing Committees Drive Change for Housing and Health Equity in California’s Central Valley”. Journal of Participatory Research Methods 5 (2).

Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab

Welcome to our research lab

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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, 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...

Meet Our Team | Conozca Nuestro Equipo

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About Us Our team is committed to catalyzing positive change within all communities. In line with this commitment, the HOPe Lab is actively reissuing valuable materials used by our esteemed partners, Faith in the Valley (Fresno) and Cultiva la Salud, to form Local Organizing Committees (LOC). The...

"Housing is health care": Treating homelessness in safety-net hospitals

Publication: Journal Article

Hanssmann, Christoph, Janet K. Shim, Irene H. Yen, Mark D. Fleming, Meredith Van Natta, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Maryani Palupy Rasidjan, and Nancy J. Burke. 2021. “‘Housing Is Health Care’: Treating Homelessness in Safety-Net Hospitals”. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1-20.

Managing the "hot spots": Health care, policing, and the goverment of poverty in the US

Publication: Journal Article

Fleming, Mark D., Janet K. Shim, Irene Yen, Leslie Dubbin, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Christoph Hanssmann, and Nancy J. Burke. 2021. “Managing the ‘hot Spots’: Health Care, Policing, and the Goverment of Poverty in the US”. American Ethnologist, 1-15.

How neighborhoods influence health: Lessons to be learned from the application of political ecology

Publication: Journal Article

Chitewere, Tendai, Janet K. Shim, Judith C. Barker, and Irene H. Yen. 2017. “How neighborhoods influence health: Lessons to be learned from the application of political ecology”. Health & Place 45: 117-23.

"Housing Is Health Care": Treating Homelessness in Safety-net Hospitals

Publication: Journal Article

Hanssmann, Christoph L, Irene H Yen, Mark D Fleming, Meredith Van Natta, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Maryani Palupy Rasidjan, and Nancy J Burke. 2022. “‘Housing Is Health Care’: Treating Homelessness in Safety-Net Hospitals”. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 36 (1): 44-63.

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...