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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...

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...

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...

In the COVID-19 and Latino Immigrants in Rural California (CLIMA) Study , we conducted in-depth interviews with individuals in the San Joaquin Valley and the Imperial Valley – two of the state’s critical agricultural regions – to understand how federal, state, and local health and economic policy...

In this paper , my colleagues and I present some of the first data on Asian and Latinx immigrants' direct encounters with law enforcement. We find that experiences such as racial profiling, seeing immigration officials in neighborhoods, and knowing someone deported are associated with delays in...

Little is known about how federal and state immigrant policies influence well-being of immigrants and their families in rural and agricultural regions, such as the San Joaquin Valley. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, and immigrants continue to labor in vital sectors with limited safetynet support...

In our research brief , we describe the financial insecurity that Latino immigrants in rural California are encountering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Latino immigrant families in regions such as the San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys are paying a triple financial toll during the pandemic—at work, at...