Health and Behavioral Science Spotlight

Health and Behavioral Sciences Alum Emily Hammad Mrig won runner-up for the best new writer prize from Sociology of Health and Illness for her recent publication "Integrating fundamental cause theory and Bourdieu to explain pathways between socioeconomic status and health: the case of health insurance denials for genetic testing."

Meng Li, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, recently co-authored an article titled, “ Physician’s flawed heuristics in the delivery room ,” published in the journal Science . The article discusses the general background and implications of an original research article...

Associate Professor and Chair of Health and Behavioral Science Sara Yeatman recently co-published, “ The impact of contraceptive access on high school graduation ” in Science Advances, the Magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The research team used a natural experiment afforded by a 2009 Colorado...

The southern Colorado internet provider Jade Communications, run by alum Jordan Wehe (Public Health BS '15) and his brother Josh, was recently named “Innovator of the Year” by Calix during the service providers’ annual Calix Innovations Awards .

Associate Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences jimi adams headed up the team organizing an international conference on networks & COVID-19 this month: COVID-19 Satellite of Sunbelt . The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) conference included a plenary session, invited panel on the intersection between policy and research,...

Sara Yeatman, Associate Professor and Chair of Health and Behavioral Sciences, and her collaborators at the CU Population Center at CU Boulder have been awarded an R01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to support their research examining how expanded access to contraception impacts women’s and...

Two undergraduate Public Health majors (Lisette Martinez and Safa Mechergui), along with graduate student in Health and Behavioral Sciences, Marisa Westbrook, and Chair and Associate Professor Sara Yeatman, recently published, “The Influence of School-Based Health Center Access on High School Graduation: Evidence From Colorado” in the Journal of Adolescent Health...

Graduate student in Health and Behavioral Sciences, Marisa Westbrook, and Associate Professor of Political Science Tony Robinson recently published, “Unhealthy by design: health & safety consequences of the criminalization of homelessness,” in the Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness . Although U.S. cities are expanding “anti-homeless” legislation – such as...

Sara Yeatman, Associate Professor and Chair of Health and Behavioral Sciences, along with colleagues at CU Boulder, was recently awarded $705,000 from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This grant will support their ongoing project assessing the long-term impact of expanded access to contraception on women’s education and income.

Public health undergraduates, Lisette Martinez (MARC-USTAR) and Safa Mechergui (EUReCA fellow), presented their research alongside Health and Behavioral Sciences doctoral student Marisa Westbrook at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting , in Philadelphia, on November 5. This research, a collaboration with Associate Professor and Chair Sara Yeatman and...