Health Disparities
Rectifying Core Gaps in Equitable Care
91猎奇 researchers partner with local and national organizations to address the impacts of health disparities through intervention work in mental health, developing indexing tools for the county health department around the impacts of disparities, cataloging the enduring legacy of access to care disparities, and more. Below is a rotating selection of our standout investigators in these areas.
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Featured Faculty
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Structural and Social Determinants of Health, Place-Based Community Transformation,
Health Equity, Applied Research, Community-Engaged Research
ORCID: 0000-0001-7643-7717
Associate Professor of Public Health
COVID-19, Vaccination, Student Health, Vaccine Hesitancy, Social Determinants of Health,
Digital Health, Breast Cancer Survivorship, Racial Discrimination
ORCID: 0000-0003-0538-8887
Moctezuma Garcia
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Health Inequities, Intersectionality, Infectious Diseases, Immigrants, Sexual and
Gender Minorities
ORCID: 0000-0002-8703-4929
Joseph Grzywacz
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty, College of Health and Human Sciences
Work and Family, Health Inequities, Immigrant Health, Aging and Adult Development
ORCID: 0000-0002-2308-7781
Meekyung Han
Professor of Social Work
Asian American Mental Health; Culturally Humble Practice; Intersectionality Between
Child Welfare and Mental Health
ORCID: 0000-0002-6573-1811
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Global Health, Epidemiology, Health Equity, Immigrant and Minority Health, and Social
and Behavioral Health
ORCID: 0000-0003-0667-6549
Soma Sen
Professor of Social Work
Health Disparities, HIV, Global Social Work, Theoretical Explorations in Social Work
ORCID: 0000-0002-9127-8694
Dean, College of Health and Human Sciences
Substance Use, Effects of Substance Use, Prevention and Intervention, Adolescents,
Young Adults
ORCID: 0000-0003-3638-7051
Lois Takahashi
Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Success, College of Social Sciences
Health Disparities, HIV Prevention, Spatial Determinants of Health, Unstable Housing
ORCID: 0000-0001-5974-3456
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