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Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda

Person: Staff Research Associate

Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda is a Staff Research Associate in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab in the Department of Public Health. Brenda currently assists with qualitative research on the experiences of women of color and K-12 school discipline. She has collaborated on research...

Perceptions of SNAP and stocking standards: A qualitative study of California small food store owners and managers

Publication: Journal Article

Meza, Anthony, June M. Tester, Irene H. Yen, Barbara A. Laraia, Julia A. Wolfson, and Cindy W. Leung. 2021. “Perceptions of SNAP and stocking standards: A qualitative study of California small food store owners and managers”. Nutrients 13 (3).

Social literacy: Nurses’ contribution toward the co-production of self management

Publication: Journal Article

Dubbin, Leslie, Nancy Burke, Mark Fleming, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Tessa M. Napoles, Irene Yen, and Janet K. Shim. 2021. “Social literacy: Nurses’ contribution toward the co-production of self management”. Global Qualitative Nursing Research 8: 1-13.

Gentrification and displacement in the San Francisco Bay area: A comparison of measurement approaches

Publication: Journal Article

Mujahid, Mahasin S., Elizabeth Kelley Sohn, Jacob Izenberg, Xing Gao, Melody E. Tulier, Matthew M. Lee, and Irene H. Yen. 2019. “Gentrification and displacement in the San Francisco Bay area: A comparison of measurement approaches”. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 16 (12): 2246.

Like a fish out of water: Managing chronic pain in the urban safety net

Publication: Journal Article

Rubin, Sara, Nancy Burke, Meredith Van Natta, Irene Yen, and Janet K. Shim. 2018. “Like a fish out of water: Managing chronic pain in the urban safety net”. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 59 (4): 487-500.

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.

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.