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University of California, Merced, 2009-2017 The Pennsylvania State University, 1987-2009 University of Southern California, 1980-1987 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1975-1980 San Francisco State University, 1974-1975 NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, 1972-1974 Honors/Awards...

Research

Healthy Passages This is a longitudinal cohort study that tracked influences on health and development in adolescence, by following over 5,000 from age 10 to 15. This project allows us to examine changes in health status and quality of life (QOL) over time, including in the development of the major...

Welcome to our new site!

FOSTERING GLOBAL-MINDED WELL-ROUNDED PROFESSIONALS AND INNOVATORS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Principal Investigator's Welcome Welcome to our new research group website! We had established the first computational materials science and engineering (CMSE) research team at UC Merced in 2010, and since...

The Study

About The Study The study we are doing is called the Everyday Activities and Cardiovascular Health (EACH) project. With the EACH study, we want to figure out what factors contribute to unhealthy hearts and then how leisure activities can play a role in preventing heart disease. Our hearts can be...

Contact Us

Do you have any questions? Please get in touch with us! TheStressAndHealthLab@gmail.com Ready to Start? Click Here !

Research Team

Fabiola Perez-Lua, MSPH is a Public Health Ph.D. student at UC Merced and coordinates the CLIMA Study. She grew up in an immigrant farmworker household in the Central Valley before heading to the University of California, Santa Barbara to complete her undergraduate studies in Biological Anthropology...

About

I am an assistant professor of public health at the University of California, Merced. I received my MPH from the University of California, Berkeley and my PhD in Community Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles. I was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of...

Immigrants' experiences of policy

Despite growing evidence that criminalizing policies are associated with poor health outcomes and inclusive policies are associated with improved outcomes, little is known about the mechanisms by which policy influences individual health through behavior, perceptions, or attitudes. The Research on...