Health and Behavioral Science Spotlight

Health and Behavioral Sciences welcomes Dr. Laura Sochas for their Fall 2024 Colloquium Series. Dr. Sochas obtained her PhD in Demography from the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics (2020), before doing a postdoc at the University of Oxford, in the Department of Social Policy and...

Congratulations to students in CU Denver’s Public Health BA/BS program who presented research and won awards at The 2024 Research and Creative Activities Symposium (RaCAS) on April 26. Maleeha K. Shah was the recipient of the President’s Sustainability Solutions: Policy, Society and Community Award for a project entitled, “Maternal Mental...

Undergraduates, majoring in Public Health, Integrative Biology as well as Architectural Studies and Criminal Justice, delivered inspirational presentations (virtual) at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in April. A wide range of interdisciplinary topics were presented, including El Niño disaster risk reduction (Stefanie Varghese, Luis Vargas, Ruth Hundie),...

The Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences celebrated the 30 th anniversary of its doctoral program on Friday, May 3.

With support from the CU Denver’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, Dr. Ivan J. Ramírez (Health and Behavioral Sciences) launched a prototype lab (Civic Engagement and Climate Justice [CECJ] ThinkLab) that fosters interdisciplinary research experiences for undergraduate students interested in the many facets of climate justice and social...

Gabriella Mayne, PhD student in the Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences, published a paper in Obstretrics & Gynecology , entitled “Why Causation Matters: Rethinking ‘Race’ as a Risk Factor.” This paper forms the impetus for what she and her co-author will present next month at the American Society for...

Sara Yeatman, Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, was an academic visitor at the University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science and Nuffield College for three days in early February. Among other activities, Yeatman gave a talk entitled, “The impact of access to contraception on women’s...

Assistant Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences Ivan Ramírez recently published, “Geography of Disparity: Connecting COVID-19 Vulnerability and Social Determinants of Health in Colorado” , featured in the Special Issue on COVID-19 and Adverse Social Determinants of Health in Behavioral Medicine . Using an exploratory geospatial approach and syndemic lens,...

Laura Meyers will be honored this month for her role as a founding member of the Arizona State University COVID-19 Case Investigation and Community Response Team. The team’s student and staff workforce provide support to the Maricopa County Department of Public Health by interviewing cases, or individuals who tested positive...

Assistant Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences Ivan Ramirez recently published “ Deconstructing the spatial effects of El Niño and vulnerability on cholera rates in Peru: Wavelet and GIS Analyses ” in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology . This retrospective research yields new insights about epidemic cholera during the 1990s in...