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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.

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...

Our current research on housing, opportunity, place, and education

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Educational Trajectories and Health This is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study investigating education trajectories, the paths people take to complete their education, how it differs by sex, race/ethnicity, and family circumstances, and what the effect of different trajectories is on...

Educational attainment past the traditional age of completion for two cohorts of US adults: Inequalities by gender and race/ethnicity

Publication: Journal Article

Cohen, Alison K., Sarah Ryan, Louisa H. Smith, Robert K. Ream, Maria Glymour, Andrea Lopez, and Irene H. Yen. 2021. “Educational attainment past the traditional age of completion for two cohorts of US adults: Inequalities by gender and race/ethnicity”. Race and Social Problems.

Understanding the benefits of different types and timing of education for mental health: A sequence analysis approach

Publication: Journal Article

Vable, Anusha M, Catherine dP Duarte, Rae Wannier, Alec M Chan-Golston, Alison K Cohen, Maria Glymour, Robert K Ream, and Irene H Yen. 2021. “Understanding the benefits of different types and timing of education for mental health: A sequence analysis approach”. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.

Housing stability and Hepatitis C infection for young adults who inject drugs: Examining the relationship of consistent and intermittent housing status on HCV infection risk

Publication: Journal Article

Morris, Meghan D, Irene H Yen, Steve Shiboski, Jennifer L Evans, and Kimberly Page. 2020. “Housing stability and Hepatitis C infection for young adults who inject drugs: Examining the relationship of consistent and intermittent housing status on HCV infection risk”. Journal of Urban Health 97 (6): 831-44.

Does the type and timing of educational attainment influence physical health? A novel application of sequence analysis

Publication: Journal Article

Vable, Anusha M, Catherine dP Duarte, Alison K Cohen, Maria Glymour, Robert K Ream, and Irene H Yen. 2020. “Does the type and timing of educational attainment influence physical health? A novel application of sequence analysis”. American Journal of Epidemiology 189 (11): 1389-1401.