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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...